Forbidden Fruits
IFC Films | Release Date: March 27, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeMar 24, 2026
The film is a witchy mall comedy that mostly keeps you under its spell. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comZachary Lee
It captures so well the insanity of the contradictions we–particularly women–have to live into daily. Read full review
73
PolygonJesse HassengerApr 10, 2026
Though their conflicts eventually lead to horror-movie violence, the cruelest fate, the movie implies, may be a professional life consigned to malls, overpriced novelty coffee drinks, and other commercial/cultural remnants of a millennial youth. Read full review
70
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannMar 26, 2026
That's what makes Forbidden Fruits feel both timely and timeless. We rarely leave the inside of the mall, giving the film a claustrophobic feel. The girls use cell phones – it'd be strange if they didn't – but any recognizable social media are absent. It feels like a distinctly modern take on female friendship, but one that owes a great deal to the films that have come before it. And it's lost the sort of optimism that those films often came with. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJacob Oller
If you don’t worry about the story and just immerse yourself in the gags, Alloway’s film is a must-watch for the Venn diagram overlap between Shudder subscribers and the slumber party crowd. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshMar 26, 2026
Forbidden Fruits can’t reconcile all of its influences and just ends up as a collection of references and high style without much staying power — it’s essentially the fast fashion of girly pop horror. Read full review
50
IndieWireAlison ForemanMar 26, 2026
Alloway’s debut is a beautiful disaster that even at its weakest points has just enough glamor and guts to justify most genre girlies taking the journey eventually. Just don’t expect to find anything especially ripe, or rotten, once you check it out. Read full review
40
The New York TimesChris AzzopardiMar 26, 2026
Though Reinhart and Pedretti chew through the scenery with dedication, the film, directed and written by Meredith Alloway, is a vibes-only pastiche that has little to add to the satirical queen-bee subgenre besides some updated slang. Read full review
40
ColliderRoss Bonaime
Beyond some decent performances that aren’t done justice by this script, and some fairly wild leaps into horror, Forbidden Fruits isn’t ripe, it’s just rotten. Read full review
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