Andy Muschietti has delivered one spectacular horror film with It. The harshness of the horror will keep fans happy while the characterisation and coming-of-age storyline is a welcome change to what could have been.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2025

As an adaptation of a great 20th century novel, It completely misses the mark.

| Dec 12, 2023

A more traditional single film adaptation, that followed the dual narrative structure of King’s tome, would have lost It’s creeping absence of the adult...

| Dec 5, 2023

Why is he disguised as a clown? Why is he targeting children? And what's up with his obsession with making people float? All these questions, whose answers are familiar to those of us who have read the novel, are ever so slightly approached in the movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 4, 2023

The film is just as much an evocation of troubled adolescence as it is a horror romp featuring a malevolent clown.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It wants to be both a nostalgia-driven romp and a genuine horror film, and it ends up doing a disservice to both sides.

| Jun 21, 2022

When the scary things emerge from the dark and turn out to be digital specters, it's not all that terrifying. More effective is our investment in the characters and their fates.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2022

It like Pennywise is a being of its own - a blend of The Goonies and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 18, 2022

The production, the performances, the visuals, the story, the horror, and everything else gels together into one of the best Stephen King movies ever made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 29, 2021

A freaky reboot with creepy moments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2021

Director Andy Muschietti managed to make an effective, terrifying and enjoyable film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 28, 2021

[Stephen King] always develops those like coming-of-age characters really well and I totally think that they hit the mark the casting was perfect.

| Apr 23, 2021

A tad too long but makes up for its indulgent length with handsome production design and solid performances from the kids, especially Lieberher and Lillis.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2021

IT proves remakes can easily make a name for themselves, improving on the old but creating an entirely new frightening, fun time.

| Jan 2, 2021

A touching, scary and compelling adaptation of Stephen King's tome.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Countering the standard horror is an unusual sense of adventure, which plays nicely against the irrational courage of the kids.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 5, 2020

One of the best King adaptations in decades.

| Nov 5, 2020

Easily one of 2017's most pleasant surprises.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 12, 2020

The young cast is excellent, but focusing solely on them lessens the haunted weight of the novel. Their backstories feel a little rushed, suggesting It would have been better served as a Stranger Things-style mini-series

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2020

The script, however, is the main issue, trying but largely failing to flesh out its peripheral characters and their respective domestic lives.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020