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

| Dec 30, 2020

This is Young Adult horror at its finest.

| Feb 3, 2020

If Gretel & Hansel doesn't turn out to be one of the year's genre highlights, 2020 will be a very good year at the movies indeed.

| Feb 3, 2020

Gretel & Hansel is not the fairy tale you know.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 3, 2020

On the plus side, this has very striking production design and impressive cinematography... [But] it's bleak where it should be intense. It's stylish, but not very scary.

| Jan 31, 2020

Like Perkins' previous efforts, his latest operates on mood and atmosphere over narrative, and it's one that lacks mainstream appeal. The film is mesmerizing style over substance, but one that transports you if you're open to its high-concept spell.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2020

It doesn't feel like there's any meat on this screenplay.

| Original Score: C | Jan 31, 2020

It's got 'cult movie' written all over it [...] and audiences who tune into its unusual wavelength will no doubt be grateful for such a beautiful, frightening, intelligent new venture into an age-old nightmare.

| Original Score: 80/100 | Jan 31, 2020

Beginning with the reversed names in its title, the film announces itself as a distinctly feminine spin on the Grimm fairy tale.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2020

"Gretel & Hansel" is as visually arresting as it is tedious, a 90-minute movie that really should have been a three-minute music video for Marilyn Manson or Ozzy Osbourne.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 30, 2020

While [Perkins] offers a stunning feast for the eyes, the substance is likely to leave viewers still hungry.

| Jan 30, 2020

Essentially the story of a young woman coming into her power, "Gretel & Hansel" is quietly sinister, yet too underdeveloped to truly scare.

| Jan 30, 2020

And for all of the care that went into its look and its sound, the world of the film never feels more than halfway formed; in the rush to tie up its narrative loose ends, it leaves its more intriguing thematic ones hanging.

| Jan 30, 2020

Gretel & Hansel may alienate some horror movie fans with its extremely leisurely pacing and emphasis on atmosphere and mood rather than visceral shocks. But while the film certainly demands patience, it provides ample rewards with its lush stylization.

| Jan 30, 2020

Everything about this high-concept movie feels like a male screenwriter's third-best idea at a Hollywood pitch meeting; I can't believe all the ways Perkins elevates it into art.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 29, 2020