...a deliberately-paced endeavor that fares rather poorly within its sluggish, uninvolving first half...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 26, 2024

Cobweb has edges on it that catch in the throat; it's a confection designed for consumption but laden with self-consciousness and even defensiveness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 10, 2023

Cobweb provides a thrilling experience, delivering the essential chills expected in any horror film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2023

Cobweb struggles to be a creepy horror film, and it falls very short of being terrifying or suspenseful. There are too many monotonous stretches of this sluggishly paced movie. The mediocre acting performances and poorly conceived ending don't help.

| Oct 29, 2023

Characters are thinly rendered and the situations are all horror-movie clichés, building to a third-act climax with a few provocative shots that don’t make up for all the dim lighting and choppy edits.

| Oct 20, 2023

Cobweb is an absolute gem that warrants attention. It invites viewers into its uniquely creepy world, leaving them captivated throughout.

| Oct 19, 2023

The script by Chris Thomas Devlin succeeds in maintaining us in suspense and includes plenty of brutal moments. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 6, 2023

Jee-woon has made several other interesting films. His work here is manic, at times hysterical, and at other times hilarious.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2023

Cobweb is small but mighty. This may very well become a new Halloween favourite with its strong performances, Drum & Lace’s ethereal score and a wild, relentless third act. A future horror classic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2023

If we listen closely enough to the knocking on the wall, we can hear the anguished whispers of a stronger story caught in the web of Cobweb’s weaker one.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 13, 2023

The film is an unimaginative, visually muddy film that shoves 80 percent of its plot into the final 25 minutes — this after twiddling its thumbs for an hour all while telegraphing its intentions through its spectacularly misjudged performances.

| Sep 12, 2023

While the climactic shift into creature-feature territory is pleasingly tense, the final twists raise more questions than Cobweb can satisfactorily answer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2023

Creepy camerawork and sinister grown-ups keep the tension simmering away in the wonderfully creepy buildup.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2023

Unusually strong characters bring this atmospheric horror film to life, especially as it takes a twisted approach to issues like bullying and child abuse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2023

If you like horror or mystery or just like to be kept guessing, then this is a movie that you’re going to need to see.

| Sep 2, 2023

Cobweb’s biggest strength is director Samuel Bodin’s ability to maintain sinister visuals and a despondent mood throughout, but the plot and characters are as flimsy as the title.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2023

This American horror too is built around the “creature in the walls” concept, but here the dominant theme is parental guilt. Which is nice, because there’s little else to engage with... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2023

Cobweb uses familiar elements to create an inviting, entertaining atmosphere — and when the horrors finally emerge in the final reel, it gives good splatter to boot.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2023

[Cobweb] might have benefited from at least some character development to make its rapid tonal shifts feel more natural and less like the filmmakers simply changed their minds about what kind of movie they wanted to make midway through.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2023

... There's nothing any of these actors can do to raise the film above bog-standard scariness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2023