This film is just what you need to completely take you out of what is happening outside because you literally won't be able to stop watching.

| May 18, 2020

I never feel totally comfortable watching a movie in which the heroine is punched repeatedly in the face, in wide shot, by a muscle-bound psychopath until she blacks out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2016

The suspense is built as carefully as it is in a good John Carpenter movie; Alvarez uses the camera like a stealth weapon, exploring dark corners and hidden areas of the house with devilish glee.

| Sep 26, 2016

It's hard to care much what happens to any of the highly unsympathetic cast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2016

Plot and character quibbles aside, there's doubting Alvrarez's taste for horror. But, while you might hold your breath while watching, Don't Breathe probably won't give you any lasting nightmares.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2016

Alvarez, take a bow. You sick freak.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2016

The film-makers work with familiar colours to construct deliciously horrid variations on established patterns.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2016

[A] taut, appropriately breath-stealing new movie that galvanizes the tired home invasion subgenre of horror the way films like The Witch and It Follows have done for the coven and slasher subgenres.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 6, 2016

This is not a gore-fest like Evil Dead. It's a tight film about people messed up by the ordinary world and what happens when they walk further down the wrong path -- and collide.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2016

This is one for horror diehards -- well-engineered, but not on a par with Jeremy Saulnier'​s grimy Green Room or Dan Trachtenberg'​s zany 10 Cloverfield Lane.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2016

Panic Room meets Wait Until Dark in this pitiless, uncommonly serviceable horror thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2016

For Alvarez and Sayagues, the film is additional proof these are two guys who know their stuff, and watching them continue to work over the coming years is likely going to prove to be a real, delectably frightening treat indeed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2016

Alvarez's mean-spirited brand of horror is fearlessly gruesome, that doesn't make it satisfying - or even all that scary.

| Aug 26, 2016

It's visually resourceful and honest in how it sets up and delivers on its shocks. There isn't a single false scare.

| Aug 26, 2016

A home invasion story that is as artfully terrifying as Home Alone was entertainingly hilarious.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2016

"Don't Breathe" is a breathless, visceral, nerve-racking thrill ride that doesn't stop coming at you until its final gasps.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 26, 2016

You could treat it as a casual primer on suspense-film craft, or you can just watch through splayed fingers, like the women who sat next to me at the screening I attended.

| Aug 26, 2016

Horror filmmaker Fede Alvarez avoids the fate of the sophomore curse with his second feature film, Don't Breathe, which establishes the director as the real deal when it comes to horror and thrills... and horror.

| Original Score: 3 | Aug 26, 2016

Robbery crews are strongly advised to avoid 1837 Buena Vista, but moviegoers hoping for a thrill might like to visit. But don't linger.

| Aug 25, 2016

Alvarez knows the size of his ambitions. He's written one great ghoul, surrounded him with targets, and simply let him let rip.

| Aug 25, 2016