There's enough plot for about 30 or 45 minutes, stretched to feature film length.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 19, 2024

... A satisfying puzzle in which you could point out what is happening and still have doubts. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2024

It's way overcomplicated. It ultimately pays it all off, but it takes real investment.

| Nov 4, 2024

A film you should feel with your heart, because time, like love and family, is not always logical.

| Nov 2, 2024

Held and George’s film twists and turns, but charting their narrative swamp is a simple and unrewarding exercise.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 25, 2024

A slow-burn thriller with a deep emotional core, an intricately plotted genre exercise, and an acting showcase for two talented young performers, Caddo Lake is the complete package.

| Oct 24, 2024

The film gets more solid work from Eliza Scanlen and there is some fun connecting the dots in the second half even if an internet café and search engine practically becomes the third character.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2024

Twisty science-fiction/fantasy thriller in the bayou.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 21, 2024

Despite a clever structural conceit at its heart, the narrative often feels laboured and constrained by having to serve that conceit, and its big revelations fall oddly flat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2024

This twisty, time-traveling mystery squeezes maximum moodiness and suspense out of its lush Southern setting and complex characters.

| Oct 16, 2024

A terrific film worth watching and discussing. It’s often baffling, sometimes difficult to weave together, yet hard to resist.

| Oct 16, 2024

Caddo Lake feels like a movie that audiences will walk away from, either rolling their eyes or scratching their heads. I doubt either is what the filmmakers were going for, but it is an interesting attempt to tell a new type of story

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 15, 2024

Caddo Lake is a mostly functional hybrid thriller – and it may compel you to rewatch it to more fully understand it.

| Oct 14, 2024

Caddo Lake fails to connect the dots of the mysterious deaths and disappearances that plague the small town. Held and George conclude the movie leaving the viewer with more questions and an unstable, disappointing third act.

| Oct 14, 2024

Caddo Lake is an excellent genre-bender where its direction is almost impossible to predict. And once it reveals its true nature, it only gets more interesting from there.

| Oct 13, 2024

Though it's slow to start, once it picks up, there are plenty of twisted little pleasures to be found. Even if you can't buy in when the reveal comes, let these actors show you why it's worthwhile.

| Oct 11, 2024

Some may find the film’s plot either too winkingly clever or else too confounding, there’s a certain satisfaction in the process of seeing the threads that make up the narrative knots play themselves out.

| Oct 11, 2024

This slow-burning thriller doesn’t provide sufficient emotional incentive to piece together its convoluted narrative puzzle.

| Oct 11, 2024

The real twist is, by the end, you actually give a damn about the drama of it all.

| Oct 11, 2024

It helps to have a pair of leads who commit to the immediacy of their characters, never winking at the camera like lesser performers would with a script that’s this fundamentally insane.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2024