It’s a fever dream of horrors that haunt our collective consciousness from a bygone era – from famine and pestilence to impenetrable forests tenanted by voracious wolves and wicked witches.

| Mar 16, 2025

Great art has every piece in intimate communion with the art as a whole. Gretel & Hansel takes an elemental approach to the folklore, gasping with the fears of the original material while exhaling a new mystique of its own.

| Sep 23, 2023

Gretel & Hansel is a pretty uncommon horror flick. It possesses technical features worthy of the very best movies of the same genre, but its screenplay lacks creativity and overall quality.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 24, 2023

When the children arrive at the witch's house, the story comes alive and steps outside of conventional horror... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2023

I found it to be visually arresting; light on story but big on ideas...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Isn’t sure what kind of movie it wants to be, thus leaving character, plot, and themes severely underdeveloped.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 13, 2022

Gretel & Hansel is a chilling, supernatural and empowering coming-of-age story set in the dreary folk world from Grimm's tale. The plot lacks the expected twists and turns, because in this story, the core is symbolism and growth.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 11, 2022

...would likely work better as an avant-garde art-installation than as a (decidedly endless) feature film.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 30, 2022

Despite some fantastic visuals, the story lacks power, suspense, and struggles with pacing.

| Oct 4, 2021

Ultimately, while this was a very striking and oftentimes unsettling film, it ends up as unsatisfying as a make-believe meal.

| Sep 5, 2021

Everything from Gretel & Hansel's sets, designs, to its performances are at the top of their game- but its story simply is not interesting or gripping enough.

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

Gretel & Hansel is witchier than any other version of the story and has some genuinely creepy moments but comes just shy of making a lasting impression.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 30, 2021

Perkins has a knack for knowing even the specific shapes and colors that will maximize creepiness.

| Jan 28, 2021

I was almost enchanted by Gretel and Hansel's feast for the eyeballs, but it's mostly just a bunch of empty gothica.

| Jan 11, 2021

Beautiful to look at but lacking in many other aspects required to elevate it to above-average levels.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Dec 31, 2020

[A] visually gruesome and beautiful bildungsroman that gives the classic story new life.

| Dec 30, 2020

There are quite a few interesting ideas in Osgood Perkins' "Gretel and Hansel," making its botched execution all the more frustrating.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

There is an evocative viewing experience - but one for a much more bespoke audience than its studio would have you think.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 2, 2020

If you're looking for something beautiful to watch definitely check it out it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 12, 2020

A quietly compelling and surprisingly unique piece of genre cinema. Plus it's really beautiful to look at. Expect this one to be re-appraised in a decade.

| Aug 7, 2020