Lizzie is a decent film, but it takes a long time to get to the juicy parts. Perhaps this story is best being adapted as a miniseries on so we can spend more time with this fascinating character.

| Oct 11, 2024

Truly what makes the film is the performance from Sevigny and Stewart...

| Original Score: B+ | May 9, 2024

Lizzie doesn't answer all the questions, but gradually gains strength and shape until it transmits to the audience the suffocating oppression, and psychological and physical abuse that abounded in this sick home. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 15, 2022

Director Craig William Macneill approaches Lizzie Borden with the same sensitivity and human understanding that Anthony Minghella brought to Patricia Highsmith's enduring character in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2022

It promises so much, but manages only to provide lesbian-Borden-lite. And I'm not sure anyone needed that.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2021

Episode 10: Getting Medicated

| Original Score: 40/100 | Aug 28, 2021

Given that most viewers will probably know the gruesome events to which the action is building, it's remarkable how much tension writer Bryce Kass and director Craig William Macneill manage to wring from the tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2020

For the revelatory work of Sevigny alone, Lizzie is worth a view.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020

Lizzie paints a solid and compelling argument for the suspicious complicity without extending itself beyond its stage play feel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2020

It shoots for Charlotte Perkins by way of Chantal Akerman, but it ends up more closely resembling a thesis hobbled into a screenplay.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2020

[Craig William] Macneill's approach might be described as a so-so impression of art-house understatement, with lots of wide-screen compositions that make obvious use of negative space and a flat tone that might be mistaken for dramatic restraint.

| Mar 4, 2020

Alleged killer's dark back story; blood, rape, and language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2020

[Chloë Sevigny's] efforts were not for naught as "Lizzie" is a not only a taut nail-biter, but a vivid character study showcasing the actress' best screen work to date.

| Oct 18, 2019

What lingers at the end of LIZZIE is a feeling of hope acquired at a disastrous cost that will leave its touch on the audience long after the movie is done.

| Sep 25, 2019

cold hard slab of American gothic murder mystery

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2019

Fine acting and the strong cast are a major factor in making this film work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2019

Lizzie puts a Sapphic spin on the Borden saga that ends up being far more a family drama and love story as opposed to a horror movie or thriller as it is billed on Shudder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2019

...the film weaves a new narrative of deep sympathy for Lizzie's situation...but its painfully slow pacing keeps the impactful moments too detached...That being said...Sevigny and Stewart are great...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 10, 2019

While not the gruesome horror that many fans...might have hoped for, the restraint and respect for the finer details and speculations of Lizzie's case are to be admired

| Apr 9, 2019

Lizzie is heavily influenced by old-school horror flicks, with the soundtrack emphasizing the creaks and groans of the ancient house and the soft glow of a candle turning a hallway into a mass of imposing shadows.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 9, 2019