Unfortunately, the story finds itself lacking in successfully crystalizing many of its muddled themes along with its inconsistent world-building.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 5, 2022

It may not be perfect and it includes some questionable narrative choices, but Amulet is still directed wonderfully by Garai.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2022

With her feature writing-directing debut, Romola Garai creates an oppressively creepy atmosphere in which a nasty horror mystery plays out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2022

As the bumps in the attic grow progressively more alarming, Garai gets herself in a terrible tangle with an ambitious story involving demons, deities and eternal damnation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2022

Garai is aiming for one of those slow-burners that keep us watching by keeping us guessing. If you expect your audience to play that game for an hour and a half, you need to reward them with a decent pay off.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2022

A moody, brooding chiller that goes from slow-boil creaks to rapturous, hallucinogenic madness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2022

A movie that relies heavily on atmosphere. The actors' performances are enticing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2022

In her directorial debut, Romola Garai delivers an unnerving experiment on our perceptions of penance and predators in Amulet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2022

Boy does Amulet deliver on chills and spills.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2022

As so often happens in horror films, it all begins to get more than a bit silly. But for Garai's future ambitions as a filmmaker, this is still a bold statement of intent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2022

Though the performances are less than memorable, and the narrative would certainly collapse under the weight of even low-level scrutiny, Garai nonetheless emerges as a formidable stylist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2022

This chamber-horror oddity from the English actress-turned-auteur is too weird, too wonky; intermittently gross, and often gruelling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2022

The final 10 minutes of Romola Garai's directorial debut, Amulet, offer such an entertainingly outré twist on demonic horror cinema that it's something of a shame the preceding hour-and-a-half is such a bore.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2022

Perhaps doesn't all come out in the wash, but it's certainly a singular, substance-rich experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2022

It's stylish and well-acted, and leads up to a surreal image of evil.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2022

A loose, hurried ending can't quite live up to the effective sense of dread created in the first two acts, but Amulet is still a fascinating, nightmarish debut from Garai.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2022

It all makes for a debut full of promise from the actress-turned-writer-director.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2022

Garai has a great eye for unsettling details, making the ordinary seem alien with a series of extreme close-ups. The central performances and score, a cacophony of screeching psalms, are also strong.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2022

A confident and effective debut, heightened by strong performances, stylish direction and an original script that creates its own mythology.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2021

In this brooding, atmospheric, ultimately transgressive mystery of mothers and martyrs, we witness destiny, cult and divine (but also self-inflicted) punishment playing out their never-ending ritual

| Dec 7, 2021