A mixed bag of multi-genre '80s nostalgia trip.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2025

With its VHS bargain-bin aesthetic, this is scuzzily enjoyable stuff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2025

Writer/director duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck present an ode to individualism in this ’80s-set anthology that’s humorous, violent and highly entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2025

Patchy in places but looks poised to become a fan favourite, packed with OTT gore, high energy, fun vibes and cinematic dose of chaos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2025

Its forced joie de vivre doesn’t recycle genre cliches with the wit or style required. There are a lot of big swings that are welcome in theory but just aren’t particularly well executed.

| Apr 18, 2025

Here is a strange case of a movie that I’m going to recommend you see, even though I don’t think it’s particularly successful.

| Apr 17, 2025

Many interesting ideas propelled by a strange energy that is wacky, broad, and yet exceedingly personal.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 17, 2025

What it is.... is pure exploitation movie fun, even if it takes a bit of time to really get into its groove.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 17, 2025

Although Fleck and Bodem don’t fully deliver on the freakiness that was promised, there are enough good ideas and standout performances to make Freaky Tales an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2025

Freaky Tales never amounts to more than the sum of its parts — but those parts, while uneven, are always high-energy and entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2025

Boden and Fleck wrote a collection of interesting characters and gripping plots that audiences can invest in comfortably.

| Apr 14, 2025

Bursting with imagination and fun, including how it refuses to stay confined to one genre for long. That’s a freaky good accomplishment!

| Apr 14, 2025

Boden and Fleck manage to inject Tarantino-land with a shot of civic-minded earnestness and get out alive. Given how many filmmakers have embarrassed themselves over the years trying to out-Mack Q.T., this is an impressive accomplishment.

| Apr 14, 2025

…it may not be a classic underdog story, but there’s enough positive comment about the humble overcoming the odds to defeat the wicked to make these Freaky Tales worth the telling…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2025

Some bumpiness does undercut theeccentric flow, but Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn and Jay Ellis are in splendid form among the cast, and the film's grungy comic-book energy never flags, delivering a fun, funny and funky ride.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2025

Boden and Fleck remain undefeated.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 11, 2025

It wears its aesthetic influences proudly and deftly leans into its visual flourishes. There's a mystifying lore that as entrancing as it is confounding, but I love that it's never explained.

| Original Score: B | Apr 10, 2025

Mendelsohn is fun to hate, Pascal turns in another memorable performance, but Ji-young Yoo is the film’s secret weapon as the anthology film celebrates B-movie culture while aiming for cult status.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2025

It has a youthful optimism that feels aptly ‘80s, though it shares screen space between actual young people and more seasoned performers like Pascal, who is excellent, and Ben Mendelsohn, who is effortlessly malicious as the most powerful of the baddies.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2025

I thoroughly enjoyed this film... It has a sort of Repo Man quality to it where you probably don't want to ask too many questions.

| Apr 9, 2025