Mirrah Foulkes writes and directs the film with a sharp eye and mind. It’s a darkly funny film that basks in the bizarreness of its own world, in a clever duality of the puppet show that goes beyond merely switching the names.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

The puppetry is gorgeous, as are the real-life performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2022

A feminist retelling, a dark comedy, and an adaptation of a puppet show, Judy & Punch takes the opportunity to give voice to the voiceless, like so many fairy tales do.

| Feb 21, 2022

Wasikowska, far better at giving speeches here than her appearances in Tim Burton's awful Alice in Wonderland movies, makes a stirring feminist hero.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Although uneven, it cleverly balances everything from humour and tragedy to fairy tales and feminism in a sly story of love and vengeance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 30, 2021

A good effort that would have benefited from a judicious bit of editing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

Judy and Punch gives mixed messages as to whether the film wants us to consider its violence as a slapstick laughing matter or as an earnest critique.

| Aug 29, 2020

A rather amusing, wickedly dark tale that puts its own unique spin on a well known tale that provides some deliciously dark treats as its spirals down its fable rabbit hole.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2020

This curious film is handled somewhat coarsely... but is no less relevant for that. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 25, 2020

It has a certain authenticity recreating the period, but the narrative is so bland, anodyne and predictable that it weighs down the commentary that it prints on injustice, sorority and domestic violence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 8, 2020

Judy and Punch feels like it has one too many strings attached to grow into the enthralling and thought-provoking story that it needs to be.

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Jul 28, 2020

Aside from the obvious female empowerment message in the story, Judy & Punch has very pointed social commentary about the dangers of mistreating others just because they're 'different' from the majority.

| Jul 21, 2020

The narrative of male aggression and female empowerment provides a perfectly cynical commentary for current times.

| Original Score: 3.5 / 5 | Jul 21, 2020

If the Renaissance Festival had an R-rated attraction, it might look like "Judy and Punch."

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2020

Female-empowered 'Judy and Punch' pulls new strings on an old story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2020

Mirrah Foulkes deserves credit for creating this strange stew, and for eliciting tremendous performances from stars Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman.

| Jun 29, 2020

An odd exercise in violence and domestic strife...not really sure why anyone would want to watch.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 12, 2020

Director Mirrah Foulkes takes the traditionally violent slapstick of the Punch and Judy puppet play and turns it on its head in a female-driven, darkly funny fable Judy & Punch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 12, 2020

...there's very little room for nuance or anything once she becomes a mouthpiece for her director, rather than a character.

| Jun 11, 2020

A genre-bending medieval romp...

| Jun 11, 2020