She Will
IFC Midnight | Release Date: July 15, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
ColliderChase HutchinsonJul 15, 2022
What is undeniable is its sense of vision, a fully realized work that marks Colbert as a director to watch in absolutely anything she takes on next. Read full review
90
VarietyJessica KiangJul 15, 2022
As a superbly crafted, thematically rich fable, it administers a potent dose of #MeToo vengeance, all while wearing its nasty sense of humor like a red-lipstick grin applied to a perfectly masklike face. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubJordan HoffmanJul 14, 2022
It’s the film’s mercurial nature, its hazy dreamlike logic, that makes it so extraordinary. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Mark KermodeJul 26, 2022
A thrillingly intense central performance by Alice Krige (who earned her genre spurs in the underrated 1981 screen adaptation of Peter Straub’s Ghost Story) is the lightning rod at the core of the film, grounding its hallucinogenic visuals in the terra firma of past tragedies and modern traumas, provoking “dark thoughts; really dark thoughts”. Read full review
80
EmpireIan FreerJul 21, 2022
She Will is meditative horror, parlaying modern concerns through a thick, ancient atmosphere. It perhaps has too much on its mind, but Charlotte Colbert’s debut works as an imaginative and unsettling calling card. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAlex SavelievJul 21, 2022
Resembling a gradual immersion into a fever dream, the film slyly pays tribute to surrealist greats like Alejandro Jodorowsky and Dario Argento (“presented by” the latter director, it wears the tag proudly), yet also introduces a unique new talent with a fresh, distinct vision. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithJul 15, 2022
It’s stylish and chilling, with a lively feminist undercurrent. Read full review
80
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganJul 15, 2022
It fields such a disorientating mix of styles and symbols and tonal swerves (Rupert Everett going full fruit, for example), that it’s quite a surprise that Colbert has managed to weave a structured story throughout She Will. But she has. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJul 15, 2022
It’s sort of a supernatural thriller; but it’s more of a wry and strikingly poetic vision of feminist retribution. Read full review
80
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJul 14, 2022
Blending sensuous imagery with jabs of feminist wit — at one point, a vibrator is weaponized against a male intruder — Colbert sends her heroine on a transformative journey of revenge and renewal. Read full review
75
The Film StageJared MobarakJul 15, 2022
Both Krige and Eberhardt deliver subtly quiet performances within this atmospherically fragmented pursuit of vengeance, ultimately transforming into agents of change. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJul 15, 2022
She Will isn't exactly a horror movie. It has its creepy moments, particularly in the visual collages and Clint Mansell's unnerving score, but it's more thought-provoking than scary. Read full review
67
The PlaylistMatthew MonagleJul 15, 2022
With Krige as its anchor, She Will offers moments of true greatness – and a few pointed barbs at ageism and patriarchal history, too. But as the two sides of Ghent are thrust uneasily together, Colbert struggles to sustain the pulsing rhythm at the heart of the film. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 23, 2022
You watch this film and never, for a second, do you forget you’re seeing art in motion. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyJul 22, 2022
It feels like She Will spends its entire runtime on the very cusp of a completed sentence. I was desperate for an explanation, but the film is frustratingly secretive – those answers, it seems, are still buried deep. Read full review
60
The GuardianLeslie FelperinJul 19, 2022
It’s a fetching package, which makes it all the more frustrating that the script isn’t tauter and sharper. But Krige is terrific and there should certainly be more films about angry post-menopausal women tapping into their dark side. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandJul 14, 2022
Krige is magical enough in a complex role (and relative newcomer Eberhardt makes for a wonderful foil), but she can only pull the film along through sheer force of will for so long. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassJul 11, 2022
She Will can’t decide if its horror or comedy, nor does it strike the balance that would harmoniously hybridize them. Read full review
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