Together
Neon | Release Date: July 30, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
33
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Original-CinChris KnightJul 31, 2025
One to talk about afterwards with your significant other — if the subject matter hasn’t made you terrified of spending too much time alone with them. Read full review
90
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJul 29, 2025
Together is such a sharp blend of the hilarious and the terrifying that it busts your gut at the same time it has you gritting your teeth. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonJul 29, 2025
Nothing about Together screams comedy, yet that’s precisely how it’s put together. Awkward humor is the skeleton under its prestige nightmare surface, even as it’s wonderfully, heartbreakingly tragic to watch our leads roil to melt together like mozzarella. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerJul 31, 2025
Everyone who has been in a long-term relationship has gone through that moment when they wonder where they end and their partner begins. Adult connection horror Together takes that inner fear and makes it physical. Read full review
88
Washington PostTy BurrJul 29, 2025
That the two stars are married in real life is part of the movie’s genius and certainly key to why “Together” is as outrageously funny as it is scary. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyJul 29, 2025
Rest assured, finding out whether an on-screen couple have what it takes has rarely felt this cutting, and, ultimately, this rewarding. Read full review
85
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJan 27, 2025
A giddy grotesquerie that has midnight-movie crowd-pleaser written all over it. Read full review
83
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferFeb 3, 2025
It’s the rare film that can hit a nerve as well as an artery. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeAug 14, 2025
Horrible, silly, reprehensible, enormously good fun. Read full review
80
EmpireHarry StainerAug 12, 2025
A modern love story with a dash of Cronenberg for good measure — a brutal portrait of messy, intense long-term love. Warts, blood, bones and all. Read full review
80
Time OutChristina NewlandAug 8, 2025
It’s a wonderfully rich gambit for talking about the push and pull of long-term commitment; of the fine line between complacency and wilful denial; and of the bonds of love that can remain intact regardless of your own toxicity. The Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 29, 2025
This is a crazy movie, in the best possible way. Body horror films have to be willing to get nuts to really work ― “The Substance” knew this, for instance. And Franco and Brie, along with Shanks, fully commit to this. Read full review
80
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaFeb 5, 2025
An obvious codependency metaphor becomes a body-horror blast in Michael Shanks’ Together. Read full review
80
Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonFeb 3, 2025
For a directorial debut, Shanks hits it out of the park with his delightfully squirm-worthy horror comedy. Read full review
80
SlashfilmBill BriaJan 31, 2025
Shanks can clearly blend horror and comedy, keeping things hilarious while never letting the tension diminish, and it's a technique that allows him to play an audience like a fiddle. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJan 30, 2025
It’s refreshing to see a horror movie that relies less on shock tactics than good old-fashioned dread and revulsion. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanJan 29, 2025
Audiences should have fun with Together, a body-horror movie about a serious thing — love — that never takes itself too seriously. Read full review
80
ColliderRoss BonaimeJan 29, 2025
Together is the type of joyfully demented horror film that was made to be seen in a theater with other people on the edge of their seats. Shanks has such a great handling of exactly what his movie needs at any given moment, and Brie and Franco have never been better. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 4, 2025
Though there are some narrative hiccups, its emotional core elevates it beyond mere cringeworthy gore. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 1, 2025
Brie and Franco know how to find their way from grim to funny. The laughs come in their deadpan underreactions and freaked-out over-reactions at their plight. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJul 31, 2025
Even when Shanks hits the primary theme of his movie a little too insistently, the actors are vivid throughout. Brie, especially, is spectacularly effective in every emotional register, in the keys of D (Distress), E (Eh what’s going on with our suction-lips?) and C (Commitment is all). Read full review
75
The Associated PressLindsey BahrJul 29, 2025
It’s an impressive work of independent cinema that stays shockingly grounded thanks to its two leads and their fearless performances. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubBrianna ZiglerJul 29, 2025
The profound depth of feeling generated by Brie and Franco in the midst of this genre film, one perhaps unattainable if they weren’t also married in real life, gives Together a real shot as the greatest romance of the year. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussJul 29, 2025
It’s the actors’ emotional intelligence, though, that creates the movie’s true onscreen magic. This is like an Ingmar Bergman scenario directed by Sam Raimi. However you slice it, Together is a great love story. The ghastliness of it all is the chef’s kiss. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesGemma WilsonJul 29, 2025
For vast swaths of this movie, despite excellent, unsettlingly comic performances from Brie and Franco, all I could see was the Big Idea, rather than two people on a horrifying journey. But the more gruesome the story gets . . . the stronger it is, as the over-the-top ick kept my brain present. Read full review
75
LooperReuben BaronJul 25, 2025
Doing double duty as both a romcom and a twisted body horror movie is a tonal challenge that "Together" pulls off successfully, in large part thanks to how fun it is. Read full review
75
The Film StageJourdain SearlesFeb 3, 2025
When Together kicks into full body-horror gear, Shanks lets loose, delivering a gleefully nasty third act that takes impressive visual and narrative risks. Read full review
75
IndieWireKate ErblandJan 30, 2025
In the moment, it’s hard not to get pulled into the spectacle, stuck to the story, really connected to this crowd-pleasing (and -screaming) little ditty of a midnight treat. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneDavid FearAug 1, 2025
It’s bone-chilling romantic cringe-comedy, in the form of a public nightmare. And for a split second, a movie so dedicated to getting under horror fans’ skin truly succeeds in making you want to crawl out of yours. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonJan 29, 2025
The actors’ on-screen rapport is sweet and loving, and they lean into deadpan once Together gets bloodier and increasingly more outrageous. Read full review
69
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerJul 29, 2025
Together doesn’t succumb to the dreaded “metaphorror” effect, where every plot point and character serves a clearly coded metaphorical purpose. It’s often grimly funny, with the actors (and their talented physical doubles) throwing themselves into their roles. Read full review
65
TheWrapChase HutchinsonJan 29, 2025
Thankfully, even when sudden exposition about past trauma lands clunkily, the rest of the film remains light on its feet and properly fun as we observe the couple being tormented by whatever is drawing their corporeal forms together. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineRocco T. ThompsonJul 29, 2025
That Together treats its body horror as just another wrinkle in the complexities of what it means to love someone else is writer-director Michael Shanks’s smartest move. Read full review
60
Little White LiesKatherine McLaughlinAug 14, 2025
It’s a shame Together doesn’t lean into the humour more, as that’s what really sets it apart from other disturbing body horror with similar DNA. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaJul 31, 2025
It’s clever in concept and kind of silly in execution, which wouldn’t be a bad thing if it knew how to commit to its goofiness. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJul 30, 2025
Brie and Franco, in providing nuance and texture to Millie and Tim, may actually have worked against a film that would be better off allowing its characters to be in an unhealthy relationship from the beginning — a choice that would make the ending feel more unsetting rather than just a flubbed allegory. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJan 29, 2025
There’s something refreshingly blunt about what Together is trying to say about the dangers of codependency, a film too busy having fun to waste time writing a self-satisfied dissertation. Read full review
50
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenAug 1, 2025
It’s a great conceit, with abundant potential. But the movie gets off to a shaky start by failing to flesh out, so to speak, the central couple. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesJul 31, 2025
Together is less a fully conceived horror movie than a plodding relationship drama with some impressively disgusting effects superimposed on it. The two elements, alas, don’t quite complete each other. Read full review
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