Heavenly Creatures is a haunting film that stays with you. It’s dark and disturbing and strangely beautiful. Like a lonely walk through a solitary park on a brisk Christchurch afternoon in June.

| Aug 5, 2024

As it is, watch Heavenly Creatures for excellent acting and direction, but not for its portrayal of lesbianism.

| May 1, 2024

A beautifully choreographed descent into the realm of the personal and therefore the inexplicable.

| May 16, 2023

It's disturbing but powerful stuff.

| May 16, 2023

A movie as swooningly self- intoxicated as its schoolgirl protagonists.

| May 16, 2023

A film as fascinating as the obsessive friendship it depicts.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 16, 2023

The film explores their minds with wonder and sympathy, plotting the course of an intense relationship that traps the girls in their own fantasies.

| May 16, 2023

The film knows when to be sober, when to be sinister, and when to be stark mad.

| May 16, 2023

A powerful impression of the hazy line that may be drawn between imagination and reality by immature minds.

| May 16, 2023

Wholly original, Heavenly Creatures is a hellishly good surprise.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 16, 2023

A striking addition to the cinema of folie à deux.

| May 16, 2023

Heaven;y Creatures emotionally involves in the brutal murder and the wildly misguided events leading up to it.

| May 16, 2023

With a relentlessly restless camera and superb wide-screen photography, [Jackson] with a wholly original look and feel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2023

Heavenly Creatures is a lyrical depiction of a deep, affecting friendship in the making.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2023

This must be one of the most humane films ever made about a blood crime.

| May 16, 2023

Jackson proves he can master subtlety as well as excess.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2023

Fuses the sublime and the grotesque, the poetic and the kitschy, to create a hybrid that is hilarious, unnerving, and perversely tragic.

| May 16, 2023

This is undoubtedly one of the best films around at the moment, and certainly a landmark in New Zealand film-making.

| May 16, 2023

A film of memorable atmosphere and originality.

| May 16, 2023

It's a movie with serious artistic ambitions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2023