Don’t Look Now is a textbook example of using visual motifs to unify a film (maybe to a fault from today’s point of view...)

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 25, 2025

The extraordinarily tense and relentlessly unnerving "Don't Look Now" creates its fear especially by highlighting events that can’t be explained. It is one of the best psychological thrillers I’ve seen.

| Dec 29, 2023

Despite being known for its lurid sex scene, Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film avoids Hollywood sensationalism while making grief into a monster.

| Oct 27, 2023

The craft is impeccable, and is doubtless the main reason many consider the film to be a classic, but, as it often comes down to, the writing simply leaves a little too much to be desired.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2023

As beautiful as it is haunting.

| Jul 18, 2023

This haunting thriller and study of the psychology of grief is one of the most accomplished, and most troubling, films by the British director Nicolas Roeg.

| Mar 13, 2023

…one of cinema’s great puzzle-boxes…

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2022

Don’t Look Now, the story of a couple holidaying in a moody, almost gothic version of Venice, will be fifty years old next year, but in some ways it is so far ahead of its time that it still feels like we’ve yet to catch up to it.

| May 31, 2022

It is a film in which everything seems to have been sacraficed for pictorial effect.

| Apr 20, 2022

Whether interpreted as a psychic thriller, a Gothic horror story, the blackest of comedies, or an intricate study of grief, Dont Look Now grows more complex with each viewing until it encompasses each of these qualities at once.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 2, 2022

Roeg, for all his artiness and tricks, succeeds in creating a dark and frightening experience unlike anything ever filmed.

| Feb 10, 2022

...primarily an achievement in hallucinatory editing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2021

Don't Look Now implements stylistic and oftentimes jarring editing techniques that alter the perception of what exactly is going on...

| Oct 8, 2021

Roeg's film isn't just a chiller; it's a profound study of love and grief too.

| Dec 5, 2020

A wonderfully compelling, incredibly astounding masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, which yields new surprises with each successive viewing.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 29, 2020

Thanks to the steady building of tension, the most innocuous activities could become catastrophic at any moment.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 29, 2020

[Puts] Nicolas Roeg right up at the top as a film-maker.

| Mar 18, 2020

Fancy cutting and every other form of trickery strain to make a work of art out of Don't Look Now -- all to no avail. It doesn't pass muster even as an exercise in suspense and the supernatural.

| Jan 27, 2020

The screenplay by Allan Scott and Chris Bryant, based on some unidentified story by Daphne Du Maurier, might have made a nice Rod Serling halfhour without all the over-edited razzle.

| Dec 17, 2019

Unsettling thriller about grief has sex and some violence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2019