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

| 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 striking addition to the cinema of folie à deux.

| 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 so bold, passionate, and perverse that it crosses just about every categorical line in cinema.

| May 16, 2023

Jackson creates this exhilarating private world with stylistic boldness that either works for you -- as it did on me -- or not at all.

| May 16, 2023

An often compelling drama.

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

It takes us to a lush place, defined by passion and imagination, where reality intrudes with surprising, gruesome results.

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

Heavenly Creatures is potent, daring, invigorating filmmaking.

| May 16, 2023

Peter Jackson... has nervily translated the Parker-Hulme case into film terms, and an adventurous, accomplished piece of business, burning with cinematic energy, it turns out to be.

| May 16, 2023

Heavenly Creatures takes an esoteric slant on crime, but it also examines obsession in ways other films have not touched upon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 16, 2023

[Jackson] doesn't pretend that he has all the answers, and that's ultimately what makes Heavenly Creatures so provocative.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 16, 2023

It is smart and stylish, with ingenuity to spare.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 15, 2023

Works very well on the human level as a portrait of the explosive potential of adolescence.

| May 15, 2023

A powerful troubling film, a horror fantasy constructed from real life, and featuring a host of terrific performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 15, 2023

Heavenly Creatures is good enough, and this is no small achievement.

| May 15, 2023

Heavenly Creatures careens toward tragedy in a breathtaking rush, with every swoop of the camera whooshing the audience closer to the inevitable.

| May 15, 2023