It’s funny, horrifying, and tightly plotted. It goes down a little too smooth, but it may have been all that was possible at the time.

| Feb 11, 2025

Streep and Hawn are divine in their respective roles, but it's Bruce Willis who steals the show in Robert Zemeckis' special effects showcase.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2024

A delightfully bitchy camp fest that features absolutely committed comedic performances by Streep, Hawn and a surprisingly understated Bruce Willis. An absolute treat of a film, even if the third act is a little too Ernest-centric.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2024

Death Becomes Her is a magical and delightful illustration of queerness without sexuality.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 2, 2023

The mood conjured by Zemeckis is midnight movie meets cartoon meets shrill melodrama meets showbiz satire

| Feb 14, 2023

Its stars [are] easily able to keep pace with its big dramatic beats, and Zemeckis directs with the confidence essential to comedy. Death Becomes Her doesn't pull any punches. Hollywood deserved it, and so do you.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 23, 2021

The target of the movie's jokes is female vanity, but since Zemeckis exhibits not a trace of affection for the actresses (or for any of the men, either), one feels humiliated merely watching his crude-spirited wit.

| May 11, 2021

This is a 100 percent Hollywood story... It's not relateable to the average person.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 24, 2021

The dizzy, desperate energy of the way she portrays Madeline Ashton is so unlike the staid regality of say, her Julia Childs or Margaret Thatcher.

| Mar 19, 2021

So iconic!

| Original Score: 10 | Aug 12, 2020

It's the f*cking best!

| Original Score: 10 | Aug 12, 2020

Every scene that Streep and Hawn play together has a bold spark indicative of the symbiosis between females with the same goals and ambitions.

| Mar 26, 2019

Despite an array of impressive special effects, including a particularly inventive twist on the famous head-swivelling scene in The Exorcist, Death Becomes Her dies its own slow and painful death.

| Mar 26, 2019

But it's not enough to be merely bad; you have to be interesting as well. As the movie wears along, they become death.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 3, 2019

[Streep], Hawn and Zemeckis combine to offer a fearsome look at what, under different circumstances, might well have happened to Baby Jane.

| Jan 3, 2019

Quirky but enjoyable oddity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2019

This pitch-dark comedy may be seen as a biting satire on the tendency to fetishize personal appearance and youthfulness. But its inventiveness quickly wears thin, and the filmmakers show an unhealthy fascination with the spectacle of mutilated women.

| Jan 3, 2019

Certainly, "Death Becomes Her" is macabre and mean. But it's also wise and cuttingly witty.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2019

This new horror-comedy has to be one of the most heartless mainstream pictures ever made.

| Jan 3, 2019

If there were something resembling genuine satire of human behavior beyond the simple pretexts for fancy special effects and relentless sadism, I might have found some of this funny.

| Jan 3, 2019