Shell
Republic Pictures | Release Date: October 3, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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50
IndieWireKatie RifeOct 3, 2025
Some movies suffer because of bad timing. Shell wouldn’t be a very good movie under any circumstances, but it fares especially poorly against Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, a better and more outrageous film that deals in very similar subject matter. Read full review
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TheWrapChase HutchinsonJan 21, 2025
Even with a more gleeful performance by Kate Hudson, Shell is merely a fine film that’s far too tame to completely pay off. Read full review
40
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannOct 17, 2025
Shell is funny and nice to look at it, but it lacks the depth or the darkness that it needs. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeOct 8, 2025
Minghella doesn’t seem confident in what he’s really trying to make, his film as plainly, ploddingly shot as a daytime soap with an equally rubbishy score. If he’s trying to do a knowing carbon copy of a bottom shelf VHS horror, then he hasn’t gone far enough into studied pastiche to sell it as such. Read full review
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