A revenge melodrama that practically pulsates with human agony while radiating a psychological/surreal intensity that is simultaneously seductive and repellant. This might be great filmmaking. It might be trash. I could make a case for either.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 4, 2024

“Mandy” is a nightmarish fever dream that’s as hypnotic, horrifying, and emotionally devastating as you wanted it to be.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

The score and cinematography are some of the highlights of this movie. It's one of those you have to see to understand the attention it's getting.

| Jul 8, 2024

Mandy is a refreshing, unbridled riff on the familiar horror story of a wronged person who exacts revenge on the bad guys in horrible fashion.

| Original Score: 8.8/10 | Jul 26, 2023

Astonishing cinematography, powerful score, amazing performances, mind-blowing visuals, and a bloody vengeance story. See it to believe it!

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

If there was ever a film that’s the equivalent of a Stephen King wet dream, this is it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Cage is utterly in his element.

| Aug 5, 2022

Don't expect a straightforward plot, deeply felt emotions, or even a sense of reason behind the formal choices throughout.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2022

Mandy's heavy metal influences come through loud and clear, not just in the booming soundtrack but in the film's mechanics itself.

| Nov 5, 2021

Episode 9: Phantasmagoria

| Original Score: 86/100 | Aug 28, 2021

A violent, beautiful, deranged, and haunting work of art.

| Original Score: 4.5 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

A deeply weird movie, tailored for a very specific grindhouse type of audience, and brought to life by Cage's cock-a-doodle performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2021

Mandy's death propels the movie descending rapidly into total mayhem and provides perhaps Nic Cage's Cagest performance in years. That long take rage scene in his underwear in the bathroom is a sight to behold.

| Feb 13, 2021

Despite its obvious low-budget construction, it's stylish and alarmingly original, while Cage doesn't hold back the rage in his performance.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 7, 2020

No matter what side of the cinematic spectrum you sit on, Mandy needs to be seen to be believed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2020

As a bereaved lover out for blood, Cage is unstintingly, resolutely fantastic in the hack 'n' slash 1980s genre homage.

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

It may not be the phantasmagorical face-melting extravaganza it ought to be, but it'll singe more than a few eyebrows.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020

Mandy is a love letter to a time where horror movies had a combination of otherworldly visuals and contemporary special effects to show the sheer brutality of either revenge or evil.

| Jul 20, 2020

Bug-nuts crazy, drug-addled, apocalyptic-doomsday-cult-fueled, chainsaw-fighting, demon-biker-having madness and mania.

| Original Score: A | Jun 30, 2020

A strange, visceral, visually stunning film with a hypnotic aesthetic that builds psychedelic atmospheres and characters that only love cruelty and gloom. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 27, 2020