Lamb
A24 | Release Date: October 8, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
23
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Little White LiesHannah StrongDec 14, 2021
Lamb’s premise is intriguing too – a pleasing twist on the familiar horror trope of monstrous motherhood. Even so, the imaginative conceit is let down by a rather sudden and underwhelming climax. Read full review
60
EmpireIan FreerDec 9, 2021
Centred by a committed, affecting performance by Noomi Rapace, Lamb gets over its longueurs and missteps with interesting ideas, filmmaking craft and a unique tone of voice. Also includes some of the best animal acting of the year. Read full review
60
Screen RantSarah Bea MilnerOct 11, 2021
Lamb is a slow-burn suspenseful horror that eschews the genre's typical gore and jump scares, and instead frightens audiences with a nuanced portrait of grief, punctuated by the unshakable feeling that something is terribly wrong. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreOct 9, 2021
By the time the final act rolls around, Lamb approaches the idea that there’s a price that must be paid with a shrugging diffidence rather than impending doom. It’s such an underwhelming conclusion to a film with such a compelling start. Read full review
59
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzOct 8, 2021
More Tusk than, say, the goat who runs wild in The Witch. I won’t make the obvious joke and say it’s baaad. But its sheep thrills are mutton to write home about, either. Read full review
58
Paste MagazineJacob OllerOct 7, 2021
Bleak and crisp and cold as an Icelandic waterfall, Lamb is a movie with a sheepheaded toddler in great knitwear, the vague looming of something sinister and a filmmaker that can’t seem to wrangle it all. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 6, 2021
The narrative doesn’t generate much interest; the nature of the ultimate ending is discernible from a distance, and the movie’s message about nature and the natural order seems forced. Still, there’s a lot here that’s impressive. Lamb is too vivid and original to forget. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonOct 4, 2021
Though eerie and quietly deadpan, the film circles its grab bag of themes for so long that it also becomes tedious. Read full review
50
The PlaylistElena LazicJul 26, 2021
Lamb indeed is more of a slow build-up of dread than it is a real shocker, and Jóhannsson does know how to rack up the tension with long takes, long silences, and sparse set design. Read full review
40
The New YorkerRichard BrodyOct 11, 2021
Lamb preens and strains to be admired even as it reduces its characters to pieces on a game board and its actors to puppets. Read full review
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