Brian Taylor's Hellboy: The Crooked Man certainly strives to feel different from the previous movies, but comes with the cost of also feeling dry.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 20, 2025

Hellboy: The Crooked Man makes a valiant effort to adapt Mike Mignola’s 2008 comic, but ultimately, it falters under the weight of its changes.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 8, 2025

Not every superhero adventure has to be a mega-dollar bloat. Here is a B-movie true to the spirit of its source material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2024

But whereas previous Hellboy movie outings have been colorful, boisterous affairs, Hellboy: The Crooked Man never rises above being a dimly lit, bargain-basement offering.

| Nov 4, 2024

When committed to the horror component, the film works well enough. Still, the time between “scares,” let alone the minimal amount of action, leaves much to be desired.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 1, 2024

While the attempt at building a mysterious and creepy atmosphere around Hellboy is admirable, the execution is lackluster across the board. The editing is clunky, the interactions are awkward, and the pacing is too slow to get any momentum going.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 28, 2024

Taylor shoots a couple of excellent moments of body horror too and effectively drives home the mood and atmosphere of a tight, taught, tense tale.

| Oct 20, 2024

Unfortunately, the finished product is a mess: Poorly paced, confused, boring, and just so ugly.

| Oct 18, 2024

If you're expecting the kinetic stylings of a Marvel or a DC offering – or even del Toro's 2004 film – you might get a little frustrated. But I think The Crooked Man will find its own fans – in time.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 14, 2024

It’s not horrible because it’s offensively incompetent, but rather because it had an intriguing concept, a good source and a solid cast, and it used it all to develop a tedious, at times incoherent and disappointing experience. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 12, 2024

It’s immediately evident what a decidedly low-budget affair this entry is, and despite its relative faithfulness to the Mignola’s comic, it never really transcends its obvious direct-to-streaming pedigree.

| Oct 11, 2024

Hellboy: The Crooked Man’s accuracy is a double-edged sword.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 11, 2024

It’s all too much. The horrors are piled on in such quantities that any possibility of being scared or even slightly repulsed soon evaporates.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2024

Hellboy: The Crooked Man misses its mark and its periodic successes aren’t enough to justify this disappointing experience. Seasoned Hellboy fans will feel robbed of a substantial story and curious genre fans will be left wondering what they just watched.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2024

Taylor envisions a Hellboy where the horror matters more than the humor or poetry or romance or even the good vibes, and he’s made a film that proves his take is valid.

| Oct 10, 2024

A mixed bag that doesn’t do the character justice in terms of a budgetary story, but more than has enough of a worthy successor in the charming, hulking [Jack] Kesy

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2024

The story is purely throwaway shoot-em-up mulch, but there’s a satisfying amount of gunplay and blood-soaked action for the undemanding.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2024

Hellboy: The Crooked Man has many problems...

| Oct 9, 2024

It has the look of YouTube fan film — not to mention the excess fidelity.

| Oct 9, 2024

While the low-budget trappings often work against the film’s horror elements, The Crooked Man nonetheless proves to be a satisfying comic book adaptation in a year marked by far more expensive misfires.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 9, 2024