Carla Gugino delivers one of the best performances of the year in a faithful adaptation from Mike Flanagan.

| Original Score: A | Nov 16, 2019

Gerald's Game ultimately argues that monsters are real, and that they can only be defeated (or, at least, "minimized") through direct confrontation.

| Oct 5, 2017

One of the best things about this movie is its smallness

| Oct 3, 2017

Unsurprisingly, the film is [Mike Flanagan's] most accomplished to date, the result of the years he's spent giving a damn about his characters and their anguish. He's so good at it, he even makes it look easy.

| Oct 3, 2017

Despite the rather absurd premise, it's well worth a watch.

| Oct 3, 2017

When it works, it's because of Gugino, the rare performer who can suggest victimized despair and empowered triumph.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 29, 2017

[Mike] Flanagan has a command of how to make the most of a single location, and Gerald's Game often captures a sense of mounting tension and fear through small touches.

| Sep 29, 2017

The best King adaptation of the year so far.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2017

It's a barnstorming showcase for Gugino, so often underused, who tackles a difficult, physically restricted role with gusto.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2017

Finally, after the abysmal The Dark Tower and the overhyped It, we have a Stephen King adaptation that's worthy of the brand.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2017

In bursts, between the memories and the ghostly Who's Afraid of Stephen King? playlets, Flanagan shows that he probably could have made a leaner, meaner, more suspenseful film.

| Sep 28, 2017

Writer-director Mike Flanagan and co-writer Jeff Howard have turned Gerald's Game into one of the most compelling, eerie, memorable Stephen King adaptations to date.

| Sep 26, 2017

Carla Gugino gives a tour-de-force performance in an arresting psychological thriller based on Stephen King's 1992 novel.

| Sep 26, 2017

As the renewed wave of interest in Stephen King continues to crash on our cinematic shores, we can only hope that future adapters and adaptions will be so well matched.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 25, 2017

When the movie arrives at a phenomenal, breakneck climax, and then keeps going with a totally implausible twist, it's adhering to the unwritten rule: No matter who's driving, everyone must bow to the King.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 25, 2017

Mike Flanagan is an un-ironic humanist, which is rare in the horror genre. And this admirable quality trips him up in the film's second half, which pivots on Jessie learning to stand up to diseased masculinity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2017

"Gerald's Game" is a symphony of suspense and scares, spiked with just the right amount of gruesome gore.

| Original Score: A | Sep 25, 2017