Nosferatu
Focus Features | Release Date: December 25, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 59 Critic Reviews
Positive:
48
Mixed:
10
Negative:
1
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60
NMELou ThomasDec 6, 2024
This take on Nosferatu may be essential viewing for fans of gothic horror but must be recommended with caution for everyone else. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyDec 2, 2024
While Bill Skarsgård only fitfully impresses as Count Orlok in Robert Eggers’s chilling remake, Lily-Rose Depp proves she’s one to watch. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 2, 2024
It is an interesting new Nosferatu for our age of pandemic fear, with some beautiful images and striking moments, particularly in the eerie moonlit hallucination sequence at the beginning, which makes the rest of the story feel slightly literal and self-conscious. Read full review
50
The New YorkerRichard BrodyDec 25, 2024
The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen, from the world at large. They feel designed, deadeningly, to mean just one thing. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonDec 24, 2024
When Dafoe is onscreen, his unpredictable energy drives a deserving stake into the film’s stodgy heart. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshDec 24, 2024
The film is a feat of maximalist and moody production design and cinematography, but the tedious and overwrought script renders every character two-dimensional, despite the effortful acting, teary pronunciations and emphatically delivered declarations. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreDec 23, 2024
What his vampire drama is missing is precisely the quality that’s given Eggers’ earlier work its unsettling energy, which is that he’s able to render the past as an alien landscape whose inhabitants don’t just look different, but conceive of the universe in ways very different than we might. Read full review
50
Vanity FairRichard LawsonDec 21, 2024
Nosferatu is a sensory pleasure. But on a story level, it leaves much to be desired. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeDec 2, 2024
Visually striking as it is, with compositions that rival great Flemish paintings, the obsessive director’s somber retelling of F.W. Murnau’s expressionistic vampire movie is commendably faithful to the 1922 silent film and more accessible than “The Lighthouse” and “The Witch,” yet eerily drained of life. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherDec 2, 2024
It looks nice and, at best, it’s tapping some vague sexual anxiety about marriage-wrecking shaggers with big moustaches. But really ... Read full review
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