Things Heard & Seen
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): April 29, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
15
Negative:
1
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83
The PlaylistAndrew CrumpApr 29, 2021
Rich filmmaking, from assured camerawork to tactile set decoration, is the film’s basis. But richer exploration of theme and spiritual belief is its design. Things Heard & Seen isn’t elevated. It’s just mature, wonderfully made, and, whether dead or alive, human. Read full review
77
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzApr 29, 2021
While there are the requisite number of jump scares and red-herring narrative fake-outs, Berman and Pulcini – who are odd fits in the first place, given their decidedly non-genre filmography – zig where you expect them to zag. Read full review
75
The Film StageDan MeccaApr 29, 2021
Offering plenty left to discuss and ponder by the film’s end, this is a haunted house thriller with a good deal on its mind. Read full review
74
PolygonTasha RobinsonMay 1, 2021
The ending is a bold play in a movie full of bold plays, but it seems designed more to whip up discussion than to draw the narrative together, or to give viewers either a horror-movie catharsis or a marriage-drama resolution. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonApr 29, 2021
There is a bit of gore toward the end of Things Heard & Seen that seems gratuitous, like a bone thrown to the genre audience. But it also points out how smart the film has been for so long, and so allergic to clichés, while still being satisfyingly scary. Read full review
63
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMay 5, 2021
The real trouble of the film is that it is stuck, like a spirit, between spaces. It’s cramped in the liminal room between “prestige horror” and something more slick, squalid, and satisfying. The balance is off, for which a strong cast—Rhea Seehorn is particularly sharp as a colleague of George’s—and stately aesthetics can’t make up. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireApr 29, 2021
Things Heard & Seen is partly a Gothic horror movie and partly a portrait of a marriage falling apart. It’s more effective as the latter than the former, but by the end these two seemingly separate kinds of movie dovetail in a way that’s surprisingly clever and effective. Read full review
63
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiApr 29, 2021
Things Heard & Seen is an adequate haunted-house film, to be sure, but it will certainly give you pause about that three-bedroom, three-bath listing in Kingston. Read full review
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