This is not nearly as intense or terrifying [as the original].

| Sep 19, 2022

This is not a bad movie but it's so relentlessly grim that it's hard to recommend.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 19, 2022

It is not as shocking as the original, directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, but it is still a dark psychological thriller.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 16, 2022

It’s a telephone game approach to repurposing art. The film recounts the original without quite remembering what genre it was, what it was trying to do, or what it was trying to say.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2022

It’s a film that seemingly aims to be average, but unlike so many other remakes, it actually achieves that goal.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 16, 2022

Watts is terrific in “Goodnight Mommy,” capturing the same ambiguity and anxiety that marked Susanne Wuest’s original performance.

| Sep 16, 2022

In the press notes for the film, Sobel shares that his initial response when he was offered the film was a no, not seeing the point in revisiting something so recent. He should have trusted his first instinct.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2022

Like a match that won't spark a flame no matter how many times you strike it, this is a movie that should work, but, frustratingly, does not.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Sep 16, 2022

One of the most patently unnecessary films of the year.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 16, 2022

The original Austrian film had shock value and genuine, gruesome horror. This new Americanized version sands the edges off of the narrative every chance it gets.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 16, 2022

I can’t say it’s better or worse than the original. It’s effectively chilling, rather than terrifying. Why Sobel needed to remake it is a mystery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2022

Interested in the psychological underpinnings of the story but not in the terrifying ways they could play out, leaving the audience with uniformly excellent performances yet very little intensity and hardly any showmanship.

| Sep 15, 2022

Like so many American horror remakes, the film goes soft on the malevolence that made its predecessor so disturbing and ultimately fails to stand on its own.

| Sep 15, 2022

This remake may not drastically shake up the story, but it does alter its approach to psychological horror and serves as a solid introduction for the unacquainted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2022

A film that feels lazily compressed and overly literal, suggesting a lamentable discomfort with ambiguity that’s all too common in arthouse-to-mainstream retreads.

| Sep 15, 2022