Resurrection
IFC Films | Release Date: July 29, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
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23
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5
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100
ColliderTherese LacsonApr 25, 2022
The conclusion might leave some throwing their hands up in frustration and others applauding its audacity, but it's an ending that will definitely leave you with something to talk about and ponder long after the credits finish rolling. Read full review
100
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJan 28, 2022
Resurrection is emotionally searing, wildly unhinged and maybe even a little batshit crazy. However, as anchored by its two fiercely committed and convincing lead performances (Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth), a menacingly disquieting tone, and a frightening ambiguity about a disintegrating mental state, Resurrection is a deeply distressing and compelling drama that will shock and shake you to your core. Read full review
91
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiJan 28, 2022
Resurrection pushes about as far as it can possibly go, and the incredibly game cast supplies much of the pressure. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJul 28, 2022
While Resurrection harbors more than one theme — empty-nest anxieties, toxic men and the long tail of their manipulations — the movie feels more like an unhinged test of how far into the loonyverse the audience can be persuaded to venture. Read full review
85
Film ThreatAlan NgJan 28, 2022
Resurrection is a brilliant thriller that rests on the actors’ remarkable performances without the need for typical thriller elements nor the need to resort to torture porn. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubJordan HoffmanJul 27, 2022
Movies like Resurrection are terrific because they blur the line between how you’d act in reality and what’s appropriate for a film. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 28, 2022
Semans’ film stands out for how purposefully it seems to walk the line between schlocky crap and serious cinema. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangAug 2, 2022
There’s more at work here than just Hall’s unsurprising mastery of exposed-nerves emoting; both she and Semans, striking unnervingly dissonant chords at every turn, seem to be operating in near-perfect harmony. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJul 29, 2022
About halfway through Resurrection, Rebecca Hall delivers a nearly eight-minute monologue about her character’s past that is so riveting, so mystifying and terrifying that you shouldn’t be surprised if it shows up in every acting class sometime in the near future. Read full review
80
Time OutLou ThomasJan 28, 2022
Without exactly revolutionising the form, Semans’s debut delivers an unsettling tale of psychological torment and the kind of creeping dread and shocking climax that hallmarks some of the best horror. Read full review
79
Paste MagazineJacob OllerJul 28, 2022
Writer/director Andrew Semans’ sophomore feature pulses with black-hearted humor and cruelties so odd as to be undeniably believable, but it’s Hall’s expressive transformation that drives the film’s blood into its final manic fever. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleJenny NulfJul 27, 2022
Resurrection nearly nails it – it’s masterful in its body horror elements and its creeping anxiety is crafted effortlessly – but the film’s final moments pull the rug, failing to twist the knife in the gut, sticking the kill. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJul 28, 2022
Written and directed by Andrew Semans, Resurrection is a diabolically intense psychological thriller, with two riveting central performances from Hall and Tim Roth, neither of whom shy away from the dark nutty territory they are required to enter. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonJul 26, 2022
With Margaret threatening to lose it at any moment, “Resurrection” is #MeToo horror at its cringiest. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineMark HansonJan 27, 2022
The film is one of the more intrinsically frightening evocations of a traumatized mind since Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Read full review
70
PolygonKatie RifeAug 2, 2022
Whether or not it’s to anyone’s particular taste, the fact remains that this is an audacious film that asks viewers to take its hand and come along to some particularly dark, surreal, and grotesque places. Throughout that descent, it holds on with a grip that’s tight enough to keep it from spinning out into ridiculousness. If a film this bizarre can produce gasps instead of giggles, that itself is a remarkable achievement. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesJan 28, 2022
Writer and director Andrew Semans puts Hall in every scene of this modest but effective thriller, and she comes through with a stunning, charismatic performance. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonJan 28, 2022
Semans pushes Margaret into potentially preposterous narrative terrain, but Hall’s total commitment to her character’s growing mania helps ground the proceedings, no matter how outlandish the plotting becomes. Read full review
70
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaJan 28, 2022
The overall experience is chilling to the extreme. The type of chill that seeps its way into your bones and leaves you unprotected and unbalanced. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 1, 2022
At under an hour, it could have been creepy and unsettling enough to work without being weighed down by narrative issues. At over 100 minutes, it feels too long and there’s a law of diminishing returns in effect. Once we recognize the underlying dynamic, the movie becomes less of a story and more of an acting/directorial exercise. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeGlenn KennyAug 1, 2022
Like many other contemporary psychological thrillers, “Resurrection” is far better at building up tension than it is in pulling together its narrative threads. It’s a little over-infatuated with its own perceived complexity, as if giving the audience any kind of conventionally plausible wrap-up is beneath its mission. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJul 28, 2022
Rebecca Hall makes Maggie’s past and present states scarifyingly real. The film is often good; never for a moment is Hall’s performance anything less. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 26, 2022
Semans’ script suggests guilt, blame and next-level psychological mind-games in the connection between his heroine and her perceived nemesis. As in other films that go down this path, there’s uncertainty about what’s actually happening to Margaret and what’s just in her head. Read full review
58
The Film StageJordan RaupJan 28, 2022
Delivering a happy ending that feels like a cheap way out of the story, Resurrection may initially shake one to their core, but by the finale it devolves into little more than a diabolically outrageous genre outing for two great actors. Read full review
51
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJul 26, 2022
The filmmaker is obviously toying with what horror films can be, with what audiences expect of both cheap thrills and high-priced performers. But I can’t admire, and don’t take much pleasure in, being tossed into Semans’s cinematic sandbox along with his well-compensated cast and crew. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJul 27, 2022
Resurrection ultimately leaves us, like Gwyn, wondering if the story that’s just been dropped in our laps — a kind of sick, surreal poetry, fashioned out of curdled blood and guts — is a new breed of monster movie or some old-fashioned metaphor of loss made flesh. Sadly, given its acting pedigree, it doesn’t really work on either level. Read full review
50
VarietyJessica KiangJan 28, 2022
It winds up several stops north of bonkers, in a finale that shoots for transgressive, psycho-biological role-reversal, but plays like 1994’s Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy “Junior” given a torture-porn makeover. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJan 28, 2022
It has the feeling of a short film stretched beyond its limit, with all that early tension dissipating, and while there’s certainly something jolting about the gonzo violence in the finale, it’s otherwise ineffectual. Read full review
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