Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s grim fairy tale is titled after a tiny, burrowing insect, and like its namesake it furiously digs its way into your consciousness.

| Dec 8, 2022

“Earwig” teeters on the brink of ennui for most of its taxing two-hour running time, asking us to care about characters the film hasn’t really defined.

| Jul 19, 2022

There’s something essential missing from Earwig and it’s not for want of inspiration or creativity. Hadžihalilović's latest is both too hazy to make a great adaptation and too focused to be genuinely dream-like.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 15, 2022

The experience of watching the film... can feel like being hypnotized by disturbingly palpable still lifes from the unconscious realm.

| Jul 14, 2022

A sober, studious perversity which at times feels like a murky Mitteleuropean take on David Lynch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2022

... Sheer unutterable tedium and style for style’s sake.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 10, 2022

Lucile Hadžihalilović, whose name should be better known, comes as close to transcendence as anyone could manage when cramping so much of their film in a tatty container the colour of last week’s tea.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2022

It looks and sounds so darkly inviting – but sends you home unsated.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2022

Earwig keeps its secrets which is precisely what will ensure that its enigmatic, oneiric visions burrow their way into the darker crevices of the viewer's consciousness.

| Oct 15, 2021

A singular piece from a defiant director which will polarise audiences and critics alike but ultimately enhance her reputation as an iconoclastic voice.

| Sep 18, 2021

Sensuously distinct but narratively ambivalent. A positively disorienting film, if not always for the right reasons.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2021

Viewers looking for explanations should probably stay away, but those willing to be carried by the film's casual pace and haunting aesthetic will find there are few places like it in contemporary cinema.

| Sep 14, 2021

Lucile Hadihalilović took a risk by making a movie this peculiar; it feels like the least we can do is take a risk by watching it.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 14, 2021

A film that doesn't want to lull you to sleep so much as it wants to lure you into a place so dark and dreamy that you can no longer be certain that you're still awake.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 14, 2021