Vicious
Paramount Pictures | Release Date (Streaming): October 10, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerOct 9, 2025
A sly, sinister film about self-loathing, sacrifice, and the things people will do to survive—with a great tormented performance from Dakota Fanning at its center. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureLex BriscusoOct 16, 2025
Bertino and Fanning make some wholly horrific magic together, and their diabolical efforts culminate in a wonderfully sinister parable that is nearly impossible to forget. Read full review
70
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiOct 10, 2025
Bertino and Fanning are deeply committed to going to dark places, and they take us along for their freaky little ride. Whether it makes sense or not. (Probably not.) Read full review
60
ColliderShawn Van HornOct 9, 2025
There are more misses than connections in the third act, and for its title, it's never really vicious enough despite the blood and gore to come. Still, it'll keep you on your toes as it's cutting off someone else's. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOct 8, 2025
It’s as if Bertino the director knows that Bertino the writer hasn’t done quite enough to engender audience interest in Polly’s plight so he seeks to pummel the audience into terror instead of drawing them in. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeOct 9, 2025
Bertino doesn’t need to give us another Strangers, and we certainly do not need anything else in that particular universe, but he needs to give us something more striking, and certainly stranger, than Vicious. Read full review
30
VarietyJ. Kim MurphyOct 16, 2025
The movie devolves into something inexact and thoughtless, without anything distinct to recenter it. It’s hardly a sin for cruelty to be the point, especially in horror. But you have to at least land your punches. Read full review
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