While there is room for improvement, this is a bloody good time!

| Oct 13, 2024

The teen/ horror/ monster/ slasher/ period film would have been served better if it could make up its mind about its identity

| Oct 4, 2024

It’s not original – in fact it relies too much on its many pop-cultural callbacks – but there’s something universal about Lisa’s emotions that any lovesick, sulky teen girl can revel in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2024

Whatever the issue holding Lisa Frankenstein back from its highest potential, its joys outweigh its flaws and, despite the lack of indelible quotables, it’s great to see Cody back in high school.

| Sep 4, 2024

Lisa Frankenstein is a colorful new entry in the “Good For Her” canon of horror films. It’s got the marks of an inspired director and a script that refuses to conform. Whatever small hiccups that are present can easily be forgiven because of this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024

The best way that I can describe Lisa Frankenstein is that it seems like a film that is destined to be enjoyed by many until the end of time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2024

Diablo Cody ushers in a valuable new talent in Zelda Williams, Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse continue to hone their talent, and the dark-hearted among us may have found their new favorite movie.

| Jul 9, 2024

Many women’s magazines offer tips on snagging the man of your dreams. I would think reanimating a lovelorn Victorian-era corpse isn’t one of them. Shows you what I know.

| Original Score: C | Jul 4, 2024

I don’t think Lisa Frankenstein is epochal enough to age like anything other than milk.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 15, 2024

Lisa Frankenstein is a genre hybrid of a film that is amusing, dramatic and ridiculously fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2024

While it’s a shame that none of the cast show the potential to become this generation’s Depp, Ryder, or Slater ... the whole thing feels like joyous cosplay. [It's] enough to make my late-80s high-schooler heart happy for a fleeting 101 minutes.

| Original Score: B | Jun 6, 2024

The pacing isn't quite right and the whole drags in more than one section, but I really enjoyed the main cast and what they're doing within that often janky structure.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 24, 2024

Over the top and painfully unfunny, it makes Madame Web seem like Madame Bovary.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 4, 2024

A sly and subversive candy-colored fantasy that plays like the fevered romantic ramblings of a disaffected teenager's diary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2024

Because it’s set in 1989, it also attempts a John Hughes vibe, although the movie is so inept at recreating that era that it might as well be taking place in the same year as, say, All Quiet on the Western Front or Quest for Fire.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2024

... "Lisa Frankenstein" may not be the teen horror comedy you think you want, but it’ll surprise you in ways that will reveal what you need.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 10, 2024

I’m not entirely sure how a film that features vomit, fountains of blood, and a severed penis (!!!) ends up being as sweet as this one is – but yeah, it GOT me. Right in the teen girl romantic feels.

| Apr 5, 2024

Lisa Frankenstein has a lot of fun ideas, and a laudable leading duo, however it doesn’t electrify enough -- and lacks the scares and gore to be classed as hefty horror and the giggles to rate as cracking comedy.

| Mar 28, 2024

Lisa Frankenstein is a mixed bag: a great concept and central characters, some solid performances [... yet] the pacing and the editing are really far off from their potential, [which] dulls down the experience of watching the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2024

... a serviceable, fun goth romp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2024