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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 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

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

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

...the most technically ambitious of these films, and through the first two-thirds, at least, it's jaggedly compelling...

| Aug 18, 2020

Creepy, bloody, and flat-out weird in places, Amulet is a bold directorial debut for Garai and a disquieting reminder that getting rid of the past is never very easy.

| Aug 4, 2020

Garai incisively dissects concepts involving cycles of abuse, male entitlement and female disempowerment in the context of an otherwise by-the-book example of cerebral existential horror.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 25, 2020

Amulet is more than the sum of its visual frights. Garai sets you up to expect one kind of movie, but she's made something else entirely...

| Jul 24, 2020

Suffused with plenty of gross-out, phantasmagoric body horror but short on actual spine-tingling scares, the handsomely-produced Amulet asserts Garai more as a gifted genre stylist than a savvy storyteller.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2020

The movie casts a grim sort of spell; a brooding, stifled dread that creeps in quietly from the margins, and lingers long after the last triumphant frame.

| Original Score: B | Jul 24, 2020

Garai undoubtedly strikes a consistent mood of dread, amplified by Laura Bellingham's luxuriously squalid cinematography. Unfortunately, there's a lack of thematic coherence to her tale of dark magic.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

This is Garai's feature directing debut, and it is as satisfying as it is promising, despite an unfortunate wind down.

| Jul 23, 2020

It's an evocative, confident debut, recalling the metaphorical horror of Jennifer Kent's The Babadook or Babak Anvari's Under The Shadow, even as it announces the arrival of a singular new voice.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 23, 2020

The film never feels as satisfying or as haunting as its bow-tying epilogue strives for.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2020

Smart and stylish, with fun detours into lurid excess.

| Jun 1, 2020

A dull and severe slow-burn where the audacious payoff doesn't quite make the preceding two-thirds of the film feel worth the wait.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2020