Willem Dafoe is the best company should one be trapped in an apartment. The multifaceted actor animates this blackly comic survival drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2024

It’s all very minimalist and for at least its first half Inside is a gripping survival story. But Inside wears out its welcome, slipping ever more deeply into improbability.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 22, 2023

Though it's no easy task to connect and absorb everything it throws at you, 'Inside' is a captivating thematic feast anchored by the ever-masterful Willem Dafoe.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2023

Inside begins as a tale of American ingenuity a la The Martian, but evolves into an ambiguous critique on the art world and an uncertain allegory about heaven and hell...

| Aug 21, 2023

Some may complain about the thin plot or its implausibility (how is he not found?), but the bleak narrative is a character study of an unreliable, unraveling narrator who claims to value art above all else and discovers that his dream is a nightmare.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2023

The film runs out of things to do faster than Willem Dafoe whose unique survival story becomes less compelling the moment it tries to take us further inside his head to concentrate on the why whether than the what ifs.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 2, 2023

Like the penthouse, Inside is a lavishly decorated, but ultimately sparse, reflection on art.

| Jul 25, 2023

Though undeniably on-the-nose, Vasilis Katsoupis’s survival film delivers a sturdy meditation on the value of art and an even sturdier Willem Dafoe performance.

| Jul 24, 2023

We’re left with a movie with a Willem Dafoe in splendid form, great technical execution and an intriguing premise, but that doesn’t really do anything with it, and gets lost in its own cleverness instead.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 23, 2023

Give credit to them for building certain areas but after an hour and a half film starts to lose me. Dafoe is great, the cinematography is great, and directing is stellar, but this is not my cup of tea even if the film is well made.

| Original Score: B | Jul 22, 2023

Thanks to the superb acting chops of Willem Dafoe, the somewhat irritating elements in the film’s narrative presentation are drowned down.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 21, 2023

Inside is basically a one-man show, and when that one man is Willem Dafoe, a great performance is pretty much guaranteed.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 17, 2023

It’s a testament to Dafoe’s intensity that we continue to worry over him even as we realize the story isn’t likely to build to a resounding finale. That may disappoint some, but Inside suggests that we’re witnessing the creation of a new work of art.

| May 29, 2023

I found this unfinished nightmare to be more pretentious than gripping, yet kudos to Dafoe for the dedicated performance.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 5, 2023

It's Willem Dafoe's Master Class in acting but agony to watch...and as a psychological thriller, it's really, really boring.

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 3, 2023

Inside offers a glimpse at confinement and its ties to madness, as well as dependence on technology. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 25, 2023

Dafoe, with his angular body and eyes always looking for a way out of his cage, is fascinating to examine as his character seeks the answers for his life-or-death dilemma. He’s trapped in “Inside,” but never not in command.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2023

Inside was one of those rare gems that I never expect to come across but when I do I like to scream about it from the rooftops. It’s that good.

| Apr 22, 2023

When your movie is this simple, and the simple stuff is the stuff that doesn’t work, it’s really distracting.

| Apr 20, 2023

It’s conceivable you could enjoy the film just on the level of watching Dafoe move around, change his posture as Nemo starts losing his bearings, grunt and whistle. It’s a full, and fully physical, performance, and it deserves to be in a better film.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 12, 2023