She Dies Tomorrow
Neon | Release Date: July 31, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
35
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 4, 2020
It’s intensely disturbing and hilarious in equal measure, as if somebody decided to let David Lynch remake Contagion. Read full review
100
Screen DailyTim GriersonJul 27, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow is both cheeky and disconcerting — and unlike life, it ends right when it should. Read full review
95
Vanity FairK. Austin CollinsAug 3, 2020
The thrill arises from the way Seimetz constructs and juggles everything, the balance between what she provides (feelings, memories, sensations) and denies (hard answers, explicit philosophy). Read full review
91
IndieWireEric KohnJul 27, 2020
Seimetz has conjured a beguiling narrative so tapped into the current worldwide panic that it might have been made in its aftermath. Read full review
90
Little White LiesLillian CrawfordDec 29, 2021
It’s not a journey for the faint of heart. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangAug 7, 2020
The concision of its story and the elasticity of its themes are crucial to its peculiar potency: Operating within tight narrative and budgetary confines, Seimetz seeks to reshuffle our perceptions, to alter our sense of how movies can represent the unrepresentable. Read full review
90
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpAug 6, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow is both the perfect film for this moment and also the worst viewing choice possible considering the circumstances. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 5, 2020
Dazed but far from confused, “She Dies Tomorrow” tugs at you, nagging to be viewed more than once. Eerie and at times impenetrable, the movie (which was completed pre-pandemic) presents a rapidly spreading psychological contagion that feels uncomfortably timely. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 4, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow is one of the scariest movies I’ve seen in a long time. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJul 29, 2020
Movies like this are why arthouses exist, and why we'll seek them out again as soon as it's safe to breathe near our fellow humans. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 6, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow is a well-crafted, beautifully acted, minimalist gem for our times. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 6, 2020
As the sensation of imminent doom spreads from character to character to character, She Dies Tomorrow takes shape as an allegory with just enough genre trimmings to keep us off balance. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAug 4, 2020
In its cautious rhythm, its economical storytelling and its deliberately over-the-top colour scheme – each character’s “infection,” so to speak, is back-lit by deeply saturated red and blues – She Dies Tomorrow unsettles without using any of cinema’s typical tools. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJul 31, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow has the feel of a horror film, and is sometimes scary, but it's really an existential meditation on mortality. Read full review
85
The VergeJoshua RiveraAug 7, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow is a house of mirrors, a film much more interested in the reflections it offers you than in conjuring anything overly specific for you to ruminate. Read full review
84
TheWrapSteve PondAug 3, 2020
Deliciously disjointed and dreamlike, it eludes easy tracking and relies on the odd beauty of its imagery; at first, it makes you wonder how David Lynch might tackle a film about depression. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJul 31, 2020
Wildly unsettling and original. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeJul 30, 2020
It is an emotionally vulnerable piece of work, touching on everything from the pain of experiencing a mental illness that no one around you understands to what it means to waste your life. Read full review
83
The PlaylistLuke HicksJul 27, 2020
Seimetz leaves you feeling content, exhausted, worn out, entertained, provoked, and does so in ninety minutes, no less. Read full review
83
The Film StageJohn FinkJul 27, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow is a bizarre and textured work of cinematic poetry, playing like a menacing death march into the unknown. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 8, 2020
It’s not a reassuring film. But it has a chilling brilliance and relevance. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Simran HansSep 8, 2020
Alternately hilarious and spine-tingling, it recalls David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in its serious, penetrating sense of doom. Read full review
80
CineVueChristopher MachellAug 27, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow is billed as a horror, and its scenario certainly is that. But the word ‘horror’ denotes active subjects – even if their activity is mainly screaming and running – whereas there’s a melancholy to Seimetz’ film that feels too fixed in place for the instability of horror. Read full review
80
EmpireNikki BaughanAug 26, 2020
Unnerving and compelling in equal measure, Amy Seimetz’s film is an exploration of how fear and paranoia can spread like a disease, and how the acceptance of one’s mortality remains the most terrifying thing of all. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodyAug 3, 2020
Seimetz films this coldly ghoulish and derisive fable with quiet intensity and rage at the way of the world. Read full review
80
SlateSam AdamsJul 30, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow is a movie you could watch several times before you understand it. (After two viewings, I feel like I’ve barely cracked the surface.) But there’s something magnetic at its core that makes you want to return. Read full review
80
Rolling StoneDavid FearJul 30, 2020
It feels both timeless in its ability to channel a universal fear of mortality and if it has arrived, regrettably, right on time. Read full review
80
SlashfilmMatt DonatoMar 26, 2020
Amy Seimetz plays by her own rules like this is the last film she’ll ever make (it won’t be, no shot). She Dies Tomorrow ponders self-fulfillment with agency and riveting execution. Seimetz’s fearlessness is what sells every ounce of this uncontrollable narrative’s every zig and zag. From tone to philosophy to composition, this is Seimetz’s soul on celluloid. Read full review
76
PolygonKaren HanAug 18, 2020
Seimetz has crafted the perfect anxious monster, repeating an idea often enough to let it take root without explaining so much about it that it can be rationalized away. It’s all nestled within a dark — and at times, darkly funny — psychological horror movie. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenAug 12, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow is compelling, but I can’t say I ever truly felt the infectiousness that’s experienced by the characters. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekAug 7, 2020
Perched at the restless midpoint of psychological and super-natural horror, She Dies Tomorrow is dotted with experimental flourishes: the screen is occasionally smeared with what looks like blood, though it might be an ecto-plasmic communiqué from another world. And there’s no tidy resolution — She Dies Tomorrow leaves a trail of jagged question marks in its wake. Read full review
70
VarietyTomris LafflyJul 29, 2020
The film feels a bit too experimental at times, suffering from lags in tempo and purpose, but it never succumbs to the ordinary either. There is a rare, unrefined quality to Seimetz’s film — a personal work of art that feels deeply honest throughout. Read full review
67
ConsequenceJenn AdamsAug 6, 2020
It’s tough to recommend She Dies Tomorrow given the high levels of stress and anxiety so many of us are currently experiencing. Seimetz uncannily mirrors the pervasive unease of 2020 in a way that hits a little too close to home. Full disclosure: watching triggered a near existential crisis and multi-day bad mood for this writer. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 30, 2020
The performances click, although I have to say nobody here generates much in the line of pathos. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJul 27, 2020
Perhaps as a result of her attempting to avoid all matter of clichés, not just of genre, Amy Seimetz revels in vagueness. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 6, 2020
In the end, however, it’s all a rather hollow experience (as is too often the case with existential horror). Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 5, 2020
A vivid but vaporous portrait of collective unease that feels uncannily of this moment. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAug 6, 2020
She Dies Tomorrow often feels more like an experiment than a film – which would be fine, but Siemetz doesn't do much to define her metrics for success or failure. Read full review
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