Indie movies like this one aren't out to make a killing, but consider me slain.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2021

This thrilling, dizzying debut from Welsh writer-director Prano Bailey-Bond is a nostalgic treat for anyone old enough to remember the infamous "video nasties" scare of the early 80s.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 22, 2021

Censor feels lovingly worked-at, slathered in period detail and aesthetic beauty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2021

Algar's intense performance ... keeps the momentum surging throughout. A clever concept carried out with great invention and some emotional honesty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2021

This half-baked horror is all context and no content.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2021

If Censor isn't in the same class as last year's outstanding British horror debuts, it remains a promising start, and it will be fascinating to see what this film-maker can do once she engages more emphatically with the world.

| Aug 19, 2021

All of this is good fodder for a frightener, and first-time director Bailey-Bond is clearly sufficiently steeped in vintage slashers to give it the hum of authenticity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2021

A psychedelic rabbit-hole-drop of a movie from one of the most exciting new directors working in horror today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2021

Sharp social commentary mixed with copious amounts of claret.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 16, 2021

It's as much a movie about genre fandom as it is a genre movie, especially that find the phrase "Video Nasties" doubling as a Proustian Madeleine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2021

It sometimes feels like the film is so enamored of its mood and style that it forgets to prod the story along, but the mood and style are indeed worthy of savoring.

| Jun 16, 2021

Achieves a very difficult balancing act of showing a character who makes choices that aren't really good choices, but because you can understand the state of her mind... You go with it.

| Original Score: B | Jun 14, 2021

Censor expertly uses color and style to blend atmospheric tension and suspense.

| Jun 14, 2021

There are a number of compelling books about the Video Nasty scare -- two immediately come to mind: Kate Egan's Trash or Treasure and James Simpson's Video Nasty Mayhem -- but Censor works, too.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2021

As an experience of mood, tone, performance and dazzlingly macabre style, it's a striking and wholly original piece, a cinematic experience that has no obligation to offer the audience pat conclusions wrapped up in a tidy bow.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 11, 2021

"Censor" gazes on movie history with style and commitment, but little apparent purpose beyond simulation.

| Jun 10, 2021

Censor is a brilliant, original and head-in-the-door-slammingly creepy horror film.

| Mar 6, 2021

Censor wears its genre influences on its sleeve, but it's very much its own thing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2021

The film unfortunately pulls back from its social interrogation just when it's working up a head of steam.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2021

It's more than emulating a cinematic look, like those faux-gialli. It's creating an engrossing, disturbing, yet authentic world that cracks wide open like Enid's fragile psyche.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021