Sicilian Ghost Story
Strand Releasing | Release Date: November 30, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNov 29, 2018
This beautifully realized movie casts a sensitive, secretive spell. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 30, 2018
A scenic, poetic, striking and moving thriller about Sicily’s “problem” viewed through the lens of youth and young love. The spooky overtones make its title an honest one, even if the frights are few. This is a “Ghost Story” well worth telling, and seeing. Read full review
80
EmpireAlex GodfreyNov 29, 2018
Bewildering in all the right ways, this is a poetic, sublime interpretation of a sorry story. An evocative, emotional experience, it pits humanity against inhumanity, resulting in something refreshingly new. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungNov 29, 2018
Despite some dead time and teenage moments, the film is lifted up by its belief in the imagination. Read full review
80
VarietyJay WeissbergNov 29, 2018
The filmmaking doesn’t simply tell a story but makes us feel its impact. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeAug 14, 2018
While the fantastical elements provide a distance for the audience from the bleak core of the story, they also heighten the sense of enveloping melancholy of this aching tale of thwarted first love. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinDec 13, 2018
Although the story can feel chilly and oblique, it gets under your skin. Read full review
70
Screen DailyAllan HunterNov 29, 2018
The heady fusion of teenage romance, gothic fantasy and Mafia thriller becomes an immersive, atmospheric drama. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyNov 29, 2018
Summoning ghastly spectres of the real past, with the tragic ballast this one lends, always carries the risk that they’ll frighten mere fictions off the screen. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 14, 2018
It’s a film whose initial charge of mystery and intensity dissipates over its running time, the narrative impetus slows, and there is that question of tone that is very much not solved by the revelation at the end. These drawbacks are offset by the directors’ terrific confidence and visual style. Read full review
60
CineVueChristopher MachellAug 14, 2018
While Sicilian Ghost Story doesn’t entirely fulfil its promise as a richly themed gothic romance, the visual craft on display throughout is more than enough to recommend. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChuck BowenNov 21, 2018
The film is determinedly unclassifiable, blurring genres with a fervor that grows tedious. Read full review
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