Amaurosis Reviews
On the whole, Amaurosis is a uniquely painful experience whose emotional trauma lingers even after it's reached its end.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2019
For at least half of it, it was a genuinely eerie, uncanny film...very flawed, but for the things it gets right, worth a look.
| Jun 4, 2019
Aided by inspired performers, The Unseen is a gripping and intelligent, Hitchcock inspired thriller.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2019
The treatment of Amaurosis is beautiful, I fell in love with the interior spaces of the couples home and the lake cottage... Jasmine Hyde was both convincing and captivating as the grieving mother trying to move forward with her life.
| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jun 1, 2019
The Unseen is an impressive exercise in sleight of hand and emotional drama. Sinyor ramps up the suspense as he keeps the audience guessing until the bitter end.
| May 31, 2019
Full of potential to be a better movie, but sadly remains just average.
| Original Score: 5/10 | May 21, 2019
So while the "Wait Until Dark"-like suspense of the film's climax feels a little rote, that's OK, because the foggy depiction of a troubled marriage is plenty disturbing.
| May 17, 2019
It's never really clear til near the end who's most dangerous in this creepy thriller as lines between obsession, insanity and the supernatural blur. The performances are terrific particularly the movingly haunting Jasmine Hyde as bereaved mother Gemma.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 13, 2019
It's a well told, sophisticated, very British thriller, that doesn't give away where it's heading.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018
A great retelling of a classic concept. It fails when it ignores that focus, but regains its footing with enough frequency to generally remain on top.
| Aug 20, 2018
Writer/director Gary Sinyor spent over a decade developing this unsettling thriller, which overcomes the odd plot blip to provide some poignant insights into the psychological consequences of grief.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2018
Gary Sinyor's film has a basic but effective way of jangling its viewers' nerves at selected moments. One thing the visual trickery can't blot out, though, is the plot's unhelpful daftness.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 18, 2017
The film lurches into conventional horror-thriller territory as it progresses, though there are interesting moments ...
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2017
A drama of upper-middle-class menace that can't quite bring itself to be a full-on slasher movie, this has a few too many clichés but offers some creepiness and decent performances.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2017
What The Unseen lacks is Roeg's economy... The performances are all good though, and the sterile modernity of both the Shields' and Paul's respective domiciles suits these peculiarly alienated people who, unseen, haunt each other's homes.
| Dec 15, 2017
Sinyor's film is turgid, flabby and - despite some committed performances and great ideas - toothless, with neither tension nor bite.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 15, 2017
A sincere effort but it all feels entirely predictable and underwhelming.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 15, 2017
A portrait of grief and guilt that's only mildly engaging, until it morphs into a wannabe psychological thriller and turns limp, laughable, and just plain icky.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 15, 2017
A committed central performance from Jasmine Hyde can't quite save this half-baked thriller that matches jarring tonal leaps and narrative ineptitude with unfortunate echoes of superior films.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 15, 2017
Due to issues with pacing and control of the narrative, it doesn't quite come together, and the necessary chill isn't properly refrigerated.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2017