A thrill of form and function, a fully crafted exercise in visual style and classical genre legerdemain.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 2, 2024

Even when these deeper textual aspects are pushed aside, Shutter Island is still a thriller that is gripping, chilling and wholly entertaining...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

As a mystery thriller, it is a direct one-way ticket to madness, and it's impossible not to get hooked or think about it once it's over. Without a doubt, this is one of Scorsese's best films with DiCaprio. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 21, 2024

Shutter Island substantiates an artistic recurrence in Martin Scorsese's body of work. What is the cost to oneself of living by a system of belief?

| Dec 12, 2023

Scorsese has conjured up a nightmarish cinematic display of his talents, quite unlike anything he’s shown us before.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 22, 2023

Teddy Daniels walks the dark empty hallway of a mental institution. The tiny flame of his match goes off. He lights another one. A couple of minutes later a man behind bars tells him “Don’t you get it? You’re a rat in a maze.” So is the viewer.

| Jun 20, 2023

I had heard a great deal about the film Shutter Island, yet had never watched it before. Having seen it, I don’t know why it got totally overlooked at the Oscars.

| Apr 26, 2023

If the narrative somewhat lacks power, Scorsese's lowest gear is still incredibly powerful and has a bigger reach than the maximum power of other filmmakers. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 5, 2023

Similar to Scorsese’s Academy Award winning The Departed, SHUTTER ISLAND presents its characters in clear opposition as men of empathy and men of violence, exploring the inherent destruction caused by the glorification of toxic masculinity.

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2023

Scorsese delves into the psychological thriller genre while also brilliantly injecting elements of horror and even classic noir. It all fits great with the cool period setting and the overall captivating premise.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 1, 2022

This is classic psychodrama, a tribute to old Hollywood craft with [Martin] Scorsese’s modern storytelling chops.

| Oct 9, 2022

It's supposed to be some suspense thriller... somebody should have said hey why don't you go see the hilarious comedy of Shutter Island.

| Sep 1, 2021

A relentlessly chilling mystery and a white-knuckle thriller.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Mark Ruffalo breaks away and serves up what may very well be his best performance to date.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 23, 2020

Neither the book nor the film of Shutter Island, unfortunately, has the courage of its convictions. It would have been more on point if Scorsese had given real expression to the spirit and traumas of the mid-1950s.

| Aug 18, 2020

The worst of Scorsese's career by a long, long way.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 2, 2020

Unfortunately, Shutter Island is somewhat hobbled by our sense that Scorsese is slumming in the schlock-fest thriller genre.

| Jan 23, 2020

Shutter Island is a very well made film that captures the genre of mystery similar to the Twilight Zone episodes and the renowned Hitchcock films.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2020

Part gothic horror and part Hitchcockian nightmare, Shutter Island is bold, atmospheric and hugely entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2019

Shutter Island is Scorsese's most Hitchcockian effort yet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2019