It's What's Inside
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): October 4, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
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12
Mixed:
7
Negative:
3
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90
SlashfilmBill BriaJan 27, 2024
It's What's Inside is one of the funniest, most clever, and narratively ambitious movies I've seen in a long while. Read full review
85
Paste MagazineMatthew JacksonOct 3, 2024
Who we really are versus who we hope we are is a source of phenomenal dramatic tension in any genre. Throw in some horror concepts and some scary atmosphere and you’ve got what’s (hopefully) a compelling concoction about the fear of facing your true self, and the fear of learning those closest to you aren’t who you thought they were. Read full review
85
The Daily BeastNick SchagerOct 2, 2024
Cares far less about scares than thrills, and it generates plenty of giddy ones as it mires its characters in a predicament of head-spinning proportions. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubNatalia KeoganOct 3, 2024
While the film’s social commentary isn’t radically incisive, it does manage to capture the nature of a true party game: excitement initially abounds, but you can’t play along forever. Read full review
83
The Film StageDan MeccaJan 27, 2024
There are few things better than when a good idea blossoms into a great movie. It’s What’s Inside, written and directed by Greg Jardin, achieves this rare feat. Read full review
80
EmpireJohn NugentOct 8, 2024
An ingenious, wildly stylish new take on the body-swap movie, this deserves to be a Gen-Z cult classic.  Read full review
80
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiOct 4, 2024
It’s What’s Inside understands the concept of sympathy, but with people like this, the movie advises against it. Read full review
80
Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonJan 27, 2024
As ambitious or complicated as the script may get, the film is the ultimate crowd-pleaser, entertaining the idea of horror tropes but structuring the story with clever twists and thrills that defy the genre. Read full review
75
IndieWireJourdain SearlesJan 27, 2024
It’s a loud, colorful, frantic and pitch black horror comedy about identity that mercilessly critiques modern anxiety about desirability and success. Read full review
63
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiOct 16, 2024
Writer-director Greg Jardin’s seductive — if occasionally difficult to follow — movie is a wicked spin on a familiar tale: a group of friends spending a dramatic drunken evening in a big, luxe house. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonOct 4, 2024
It’s What’s Inside is a fun jaunt through the dynamics of a friend group and the interiorities of its members, even as it sanitizes its potential. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeSep 29, 2024
The camera, the cuts, the needle drops, and story twists all contribute to the feeling of a machine that’s spinning faster and faster until finally it careens right out of control. Read full review
60
PolygonOli WelshOct 4, 2024
It’s spiky, entertaining stuff, and although it’s played mostly for laughs and thrills, it’s a setup with real thematic teeth. Read full review
60
VarietyGuy LodgeJan 27, 2024
The results are coldly diverting, with the plot continually ratcheting itself into higher degrees of panic and surprise, though potential for a darker, harder psychological payoff is missed — largely because these characters are so thin. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerOct 2, 2024
The body-swap movie “It’s What’s Inside” dazzles up to the moment its plot gets going. Read full review
50
ColliderChase HutchinsonJan 27, 2024
This supposed breakout strains to be edgy while remaining painfully inert. It initially makes for a sporadically fun game to play before revealing how little it has on its mind. Read full review
40
LooperCynthia VinneyOct 2, 2024
While Jardin is clearly a clever and creative visual stylist, he's a lot less creative with his story. His story ideas need to catch up with his visuals, then he might really have something. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJan 27, 2024
All the nervy cutting, the pirouetting pans and off-kilter angles, the dexterous split-screen and the bombardment of eclectic music cues — many of them dropped in with archly emphatic force — can only distract from the lack of depth for so long. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJan 27, 2024
There’s a cracking elevator pitch of an idea here (one wonders if inevitable sequels will be able to squeeze more juice from it) but Jardin’s cocky, in-your-face excess coupled with his lack of follow-through makes this an unwinnable game. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 8, 2024
While writer-director Greg Jardin does his level best to bowl us over with “technique” (split screens, endless 360 degree handheld pans, etc.) and does a decent enough job at complicating his role-playing-game-run-amok plot, a somewhat bland cast of players can’t manage to convince us that they’re possessed by the mind and spirit of someone else. Read full review
30
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonOct 3, 2024
Even the twists feel obvious and not all that interesting, more the fulfillment of plot points seeded early on rather than startling turns of fortune. Read full review
20
Rolling StoneDavid FearOct 2, 2024
This tale of self-involved millennials, a mystery machine, and a whole mess of purposefully mistaken identities is the kind of mashup of high-concept horror and ham-fisted satire that mistakes complicated for complex and a pile-up of confusing plot twists for storytelling. Read full review
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