A strikingly composed parable of surprising humor and crafty wit.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 30, 2019

[It] can easily captivate the right viewers and have others in complete disdain over its restrained attitude. In addition, it exhibits the sort of twisted humor about people mechanically performing disturbing abhorrent acts...

| Aug 6, 2019

A film for a pretty specific taste and an openness to being perplexed.

| Aug 5, 2019

But the more I thought about it, and realized what kind of movie it probably is, the more I find I like it, and want to see it again.

| Jul 24, 2019

For those who've got an interest in allegorical art, Borgman's some of the 21st century's best cinema.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 28, 2019

As a psychological drama, Borgman feels somewhat strained and is plagued with some cliches (the bored and lonely housewife). However, the film does provide a sense of realism that makes it horrifying and terrifying to watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2017

Although Borgman can accurately be described as part psychological horror movie, part modern fairy tale, it unfolds within a world so realistic it's jarring and genuinely creepy like Rosemary's Baby.

| Aug 14, 2017

Clearly allegorical, but what exactly it speaks to (some personal version of familial unrest, no doubt) is probably different for everyone. Regardless, it's a fascinating film with darkly comic moments that bears repeated viewings.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 19, 2014

Funny Games, indeed. Creepy, spooky and nightmarish.

| Original Score: A minus | Jul 18, 2014

What Marina sees in Borgman is one of the countless implausibilities that make the film more annoying than disturbing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 17, 2014

The black humour and perversity can occasionally startle, but the film takes far too much sadistic delight in punishing these entitled dopes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2014

Horror is far more unsettling when it's surrounded by teak furniture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2014

A creepily comical story about an insistent vagrant turned insidious home occupier.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2014

Borgman falls somewhere between Boudu and Rasputin in the canon of family interlopers, an instinctual manipulator who can pinpoint vulnerability with laser precision.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 28, 2014

It's a sidelong coming-of-age that feels as though it skims the bittersweetness of its ending, but Lucky Them cares more about the trip than the destination.

| Jun 20, 2014

Borgman is one of the oddest, most unsettling, most boldly and strikingly bizarre films I have seen in a long while.

| Jun 20, 2014

It's the hypnotic little thriller's disturbing twists that make it such a singular -- and singularly weird -- experience.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 20, 2014

It's a challenging but fascinating work that truly has be seen to be understoo -- er, appreciated.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2014

Borgman stays compelling through sheer strangeness, gorgeous photography and sharp performances.

| Original Score: B | Jun 20, 2014

The degree of ambiguity involved in this scenario imbues each new twist with claustrophobia and dread.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 20, 2014