What can I say? A world where people forsake their feelings, their beliefs, their thoughts, to join with a collective community where they don’t have to truly feel, or believe, or think about anything, but just blindly follow the herd? It’s too easy.

| Apr 4, 2025

Its reflection of the national mood should command attention from anyone interested in smart, serious filmmaking.

| Mar 28, 2025

Superbly acted and endlessly eerie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a prime example of a remake done right.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2025

Easily one of the best horror remakes of all time, there's a lot to unpack in this technical masterpiece, including the vital early character work, the amazing practical effects, and that fatalistic ending.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 19, 2025

The characters are fairly ordinary San Franciscans—a health inspector, a lab tech, a bathhouse operator—but the way Kaufman’s film deals with emotion or lack of it feels like a warning to unremarkable people.

| Jan 22, 2025

[The] camera.. conjures dark beauty and adds hallucinatory planes of color and shadow in a movie shot almost entirely on practical San Francisco locations. [Actors] are all on Kaufman’s wavelength: sustaining mood [in] a feat of shared, uncommon bravura.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 2, 2024

Kaufman’s invasion tracks the encroachment of consumerist conformity upon the liberated individualism of 60s Frisco – and would acquire new, unintended resonance when its theatrical release was immediately preceded by the collective madness of Jonestown.

| Feb 19, 2024

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a modernized version of the small masterpiece. The 1978 film is enlarged, and a bit inflated... but the theme is so chilling that is remains alive, in a work of allegorical scares. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 25, 2024

Philip Kaufman’s remake of the 1956 classic updates it from the homespun innocence small town fifties America to the busy urban modernity of San Francisco of the seventies and gives the metaphor a new context.

| Oct 27, 2023

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is more sheer fun than any movie I’ve seen since Carrie and Jaws and maybe parts of The Spy Who Loved Me.

| Sep 12, 2023

The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1956 is great, but Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake is far superior.

| Jul 18, 2023

Communism gives way to psychiatry as our boogeymen now come from within in Philip Kaufman’s superior version of the classic story.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 25, 2022

Surprisingly... the film is a triumph. For once, a remake has not trespassed the original, but re-explored, updated and defined it for a new audience.

| Jul 22, 2022

One of the greatest science fiction horror films of all time.

| Feb 23, 2022

Philip Kaufman transforms Invasion of the Body Snatchers from an effective remake of a paranoid '50s sci-fi tale into an intertextual narrative and film-watching experience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

The 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers remains the best version, but this second take is similarly excellent and continues to grow in stature over the years.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 27, 2021

Despite a few creepy moments and some fascinating special effects, the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a disappointment.

| Apr 22, 2021

Of all the versions of Jack Finney's sci-fi novel The Body Snatchers, this is the best by a mile, as screenwriter W.D. Richter ties the book's insidious alien-invasion plot to the self-help movement...

| Nov 10, 2020

It's unnerving, no doubt, but there's a touch of humor courtesy Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum. They hold the horror at bay long enough for all hope to slip away.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 3, 2020

Cinematizing a sensational science-fiction work, even if repetitive, doesn't disappoint.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 30, 2020