Laden with doom, viscera and its own seriousness, Antlers is a sometimes effective, sometimes frustrating horror movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2021

Cooper doesn't pull a single punch, and this may be his bleakest storytelling endeavor yet.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 2, 2021

It's satisfyingly gross - there's plenty of black bile, crunching bones and half-chewed bodies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2021

Antlers is a three-star supernatural horror film with a five-star performance by 15-year-old American actor Jeremy T. Thomas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2021

A scary story of being traumatized by a monster - and by reality.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 30, 2021

Antlers delivers a decent share of chills and a B-effort monster design in the eldritch del Toro style. See it for a better-than-average monster flick, but don't expect innovation.

| Oct 30, 2021

Antlers sustains a note of unyielding moroseness through its muted palette and melancholic strings. It's rare to see a monster movie, or a big-studio movie, this relentlessly dour.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 29, 2021

It becomes a muddled collection of ideas, about both inherited trauma and environmental disaster, and increasingly disconnected from the creature at its core.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2021

The screenplay telegraphs, signals and practically takes out billboard advertisements as it moves through its muddle of familial strife and monsters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2021

It lacks the art-house stamp of Robert Eggers' "The Witch" or Ari Aster's "Midsommar," two films that kick-started this trend, but the movie distinguishes itself with a pervasive air of ruin, decay and sorrow.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2021

Plemons and Russell are both too fine as actors not to hint at deeper wells for their damaged characters, and the mood is so oppressively well-wrought that the very soul of the movie seems to be made of leaf rot and despair.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 29, 2021

A sterling performance from Keri Russell is wasted on this po-faced yet inherently silly horror film...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2021

Antlers is a mediocrity in the same way Cooper's other films are mediocrities: The richness of the backdrop doesn't forgive the clichés in the fore.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 29, 2021

It's hard to shake the feeling that the plot here came second to the idea and design of the beast, which, besides Plemons' heroic line delivery, is easily the best thing "Antlers" has going for it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 28, 2021

"Antlers" ends up with too little of what could set it apart and stops short of making good on the metaphorical promises it makes for itself.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 28, 2021

A slimy, icky, violent film that doesn't always come together but that undeniably feels like it has emerged from the passions of its creators, particularly director Scott Cooper and producer Guillermo del Toro.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2021

"Antlers" has no problems exploring the outward thrillsof horror films- the gotchas, the jump scares, the things that go bump in the night-but it knows the real horror comes from within.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 28, 2021

Antlers might have transcended its flaws to become a B-movie masterclass in the genre. Instead, we are treated to a film with a vague understanding of arthouse horror and no capacity for subtext.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2021

Nor does Cooper hold back on the grand guignol element... But none of this feels like the heart of the matter -- which is admittedly difficult to locate, since beneath its sober surface the film moves in many directions at once.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2021

"Antlers" is merely a jumbled presentation of awful things, the bones of a good idea with none of the meat.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 28, 2021