A genre film with something to say, and a unique voice with which to say it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2023

... The satire becomes entirely toothless and badly muddled by magic realism, and the writer-director Anita Rocha da Silveira’s initial target — Brazil’s far-right movement — drifts into the distance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2023

Albeit lacking in subtlety, this is a stylish film that revels in its ardent political commentary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2023

It’s flawed and all over the place in conventional script terms, but there’s real interest in this freaky, peculiar, interestingly directed psychodrama satire...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2023

What begins as a punchy, feminine-biting satire becomes fuzzy after the first act. It’s an admirable effort, but an overstuffed, demanding one as well.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 27, 2022

Da Silviera’s vision of bubblegum fascism is compelling, and Medusa sucks viewers in right away. Unfortunately, however, the film expends far more effort on aesthetics and world-building than it does on narrative.

| Original Score: B | Jul 29, 2022

Da Silveira’s film seeks to dismantle this very concept of the monstrous woman, and especially how women themselves uphold it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 29, 2022

It would be easy to define her film as “Suspiria” by way of “Carrie,” if you ran it through a “Heathers” wringer, but that would undermine the impassioned creativity she brings to her project, which feels deeply personal.

| Jul 28, 2022

Hallucinatory visuals reminiscent of Dario Argento meet plot mechanics similar to those in Carrie, with musical elements also thrown into the mix, resulting in a transgressive blend that targets outdated mores.

| Apr 7, 2022

A compelling mixed bag. It may miss the bull's-eye, but not for lack of intriguing ideas or style.

| Sep 23, 2021

Medusa is wild, glamorous, and marked with a dark, slick fury. But it's not all surface sheen; Silveira is clearly no one's fool and has little interest in subtlety in her take-down of the hypocrisy and violence of the religious right

| Sep 10, 2021