If this isn't the first work of a major filmmaker I'll eat my review. And I'll film it for you on YouTube.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 27, 2016

Tough to stomach, but incredible talent in front of and behind the camera.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2016

Are we watching the emergence of America's next great filmmaker?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2016

"Krisha" is a stone cold stunner.

| Original Score: A | Apr 15, 2016

From the first scene of "Krisha," writer and director Trey Edward Shults puts us off balance, and for the next 83 minutes keeps us that way, almost daring us to look away.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 31, 2016

Fairchild's performance is key to the movie: Krisha is witty and chatty one moment, shut down like a deserted fairground the next. We see dazzling warmth in her eyes but also the terror of total system failure.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2016

Krisha may go on a little longer than you'd want, but then, its title character is the kind of houseguest who stays longer than you'd want her to - so even the postscript confrontations and apologies feel right.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2016

At times you laugh in horror. At other times you shrink from the screen. There are truths here.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 24, 2016

Krisha is an exceptionally well done slow burn that ushers a striking new talent onto the film scene.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 24, 2016

The director allows us to inhabit not just Krisha's pill-induced zone-out but also her acute distress and, yes, guilt over her past behavior. It's slightly fussy, in-your-face filmmaking, but it's viscerally effective.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2016

"Krisha" is obviously personal for Shults, but there's a limit to that fact. The film's technique transcends the merely personal.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 24, 2016

This haunting drama finds new and explosive life in a familiar premise -- a black sheep's return to the family fold for Thanksgiving dinner.

| Mar 24, 2016

For all its strengths, "Krisha" can also be self-indulgent and artificial.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2016

Shults coaxes strong performances from everyone, especially Fairchild, who inhabits Krisha with the force of a tornado.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Krisha is many things: a nightmare, a cry for help, a cringe-comedy with sobbing instead of a laugh track, a cracked family portrait, an apology and a valentine.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 23, 2016

Shults is a penetrating observer, and hints at many old wounds that will be lanced in the course of a tight 83 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2016

Shults builds a creeping sense of dread with the same anxious naturalism that the late indie auteur John Cassavetes brought to such films as A Woman Under the Influence.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 19, 2016

An explosive, stomach-knotting debut.

| Mar 18, 2016

The film feels like a blazing catharsis for all involved.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 18, 2016

There is hell to come in Krisha, but the artist stands back from the anger - and forgives.

| Mar 18, 2016