There is so much potential here, and it's so frustrating that Noé didn't go even further. Apparently, Climax was shot with only a 5 page long script and it shows.

| Oct 11, 2024

The film documents the dissipation of idealism and the gradual slide into self-annihilation...

| Nov 9, 2023

Less a film and more an experience (an anxiety-inducing one, at that), Climax is a fascinating and stressful watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2022

Noe invites that curiosity with every film, like a giggling schoolboy who has set a whoopie cushion on a chair and can barely contain his laughter as someone approaches to sit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2022

Episode 35: Triple Frontier / Climax / Black Mother / Transit

| Original Score: 99/100 | Sep 14, 2021

What makes Climax such an impressive feat is how it makes you constantly feel whatever energy is present in each scene.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 17, 2021

It's horrifying, hypnotic, seductive, and impossible to look away from.

| Original Score: 5 /5 | Jun 25, 2021

The result is an interesting visual experiment, but a tedious and ultimately hollow one-scenes from other Euro horrors like Possession and Suspiria aren't so much referenced as flat-out recreated, as if Climax doesn't have anything new to add.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2021

This film is a wild and it's brutal which is completely expected but what I love the most about this film is its simplicity... Sickly satisfying to watch.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 18, 2020

Climax's teeny weeny script is basically just a premise...

| Oct 21, 2020

I haven't been so annihilated by a movie since mother! -- so dry in the mouth, so red in the face, so dazed while leaving the theater.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 27, 2020

There's no denying the director's diabolic skill at ushering his audience from one circle of Hell to another...and in fact sparking anticipation of what new awful, can't-unsee-it spectacle is lurking just around the next dark corner.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2020

Climax transitions from trippy exercise to endurance test fairly quickly, and if you make it to the other side, you and those around you can take pride in the bonding experience of reaching the end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 20, 2020

It's lack of substance can easily be confused with something breakthrough and new. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 15, 2020

Regardless the various attempts at shock value (with scenes involving self-mutilation and abortion) seem downright desperate.

| Mar 16, 2020

The playlist might be impeccable, you might get home before bedtime, but it's all still much too much.

| Feb 25, 2020

Just like Possession, this tale of stylized hysteria is an absolute scream.

| Feb 12, 2020

At the end of it all, this twisted horror tale is a fascinating demonstration of moviemaking prowess, but beyond that, the message seems either too obvious or even frivolous.

| Oct 21, 2019

Climax doesn't exactly have a point to make, but as an exercise in visceral filmmaking, it passes with flying colors.

| Oct 17, 2019

It's empty excess for the sake of it.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 26, 2019