Its spell will stay with you, creepy crawling down your spine.

| Aug 7, 2019

With every intention to be a tale of cerebral turmoil, this endless slew of catechisms is less of a high-brow assessment of the psyche and more of a monobrowed headache. Driving this sallow snore, however, is a score of budding talent.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2019

Magic Magic is a complex film. While not much happens in the plot, it is clear that the film has a lot to say.

| Aug 21, 2018

It's refreshing to see something with a dramatic heart beating beneath its discomfiting exterior.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2014

The plaudits rest with [Juno] Temple, whose white-faced panic carries her over plot weaknesses through sheer force of will.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2014

It's a big load of much-ado-about-nothing dressed up in writer- director Sebastian Silva's arty movements.

| Apr 22, 2014

Magic Magic's odd denouement is a dramatic curveball that smacks the viewer square in the face.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2014

A shapeless mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 20, 2014

Silva, like all good film-makers, is a magician. But thanks to the last-minute fumbling, we're left with a broken spell.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2014

Magic Magic is skewered on the horns of a dilemma, uncertain whether it's a horror film or a psychological drama -- and it doesn't work especially well as either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2014

Juno Temple is sensational in this assured psychological thriller from Sebastin Silva.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2014

Another satisfyingly nasty and well-controlled work from Silva.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2014

With some haunting imagery and an unusual, throbbing sense of dread throughout, this is a trippy twist on the horror trope about sadists and innocents.

| Apr 17, 2014

Sebastin Silva's troubling psychological thriller largely eschews cabin-in-the-woods convention, and cements Juno Temple as one of the most compelling young actresses working today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2014

The first half of Magic Magic is greatly enjoyable: the performances are strong, the photography is crisp and immersive, and the mood is ripe and ominous.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2014

It ebbs away at the climax, but there's 45 minutes where it sings loud and strange.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2014

Torpid and polarising.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2014

The by-the-numbers plotting is a little clunky but there's fun to be had in the cast's easy chemistry.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2014

If you're like me and enjoy horror films that make you feel odd, unsettled and generally unpleasant, then this is one of the best feel-bad experiences you could have.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 18, 2014

A misfire of epic proportions...

| Original Score: .5/4 | Feb 26, 2014