The layers of symbolism, analogy, and allegory are as tall as the building itself. There is a richly disturbing and dark fascination in observing how all of this frivolity comes crashing down in unpredictable and unlimited disaster.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2024

We’re so removed from the physicality of the violence that little of it is felt, and so the muck is only set dressing.

| Dec 6, 2023

The experience cannot be described as enjoyable; however, many may come to appreciate the anarchy's commentary with distant admiration.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2022

Has no room for subtlety. But it has plenty of style and substance.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 29, 2021

The film's message is timely but simple...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2021

In the end, even intelligent and very human actors cannot save High-Rise, whose last hour is a near-complete disaster. One feels that the director and screenwriter, above all else, are simply way over their heads.

| Feb 11, 2021

Uncompromising and disjointed, it's unapologetically weird; a film that seems likely to earn instant cult status.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2021

High-Rise is a stark and uncompromising film but it's also, at times, a beautiful and compelling one.

| Jan 6, 2021

Metaphorical moments and poetic dialogue are the high points for this experiment in mental deterioration and nearly unintelligible interpretations of financial rifts.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 5, 2020

High-Rise luxuriates in the twisted, and delights in making ordinary scenes seem bizarre and off-kilter, and off-the-wall lunacy feel run-of-the-mill.

| Original Score: A | Jul 3, 2020

Blackly comic and shocking at times, immerse yourself in the 70s colour palette, the Abba-infused soundtrack and the total chaos as you witness men become consumed by their basest instincts.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jul 1, 2020

However weird and violent it may be, High-Rise is nonetheless a creative piece of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 19, 2019

Playfully disturbing in a dog-eat-dog world where madness and mayhem reign supreme, High Rise is a luxurious and rich visual and emotional experience, elevating Ben Wheatley to the upper floors of the filmmaking hierarchy.

| Nov 3, 2019

It's all style and no substance. And its style isn't particularly impressive to begin with, either.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 3, 2019

The setting may be the past, but what we see is as relevant as the nightly news.

| Aug 2, 2019

Visually dazzling and happily anarchic, High-Rise towers over all of Wheatley's films to date.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2019

It sounds great in theory, except Wheatley spends little to no time establishing why any of what's going on is worth investing in.

| May 30, 2019

In an age when the poor end up footing the societal and economic bill, this is a book and film that holds as much if not more weight than when Ballard first conceived it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2019

Despite the second act descending messily into chaos, High-Rise is worth viewing for the cast and the film's offbeat caustic humour and all-round peculiarity - experimental is the word.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2019

Barbecued dog is the appetizer here, human flank steak the main course, with a buffet line of sociopathic consumption and apocalyptic class war in between.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2019