For all its flashy, overt style and the intriguing ideas behind a thematic rendition of the Gorgonite story, MEDUSA DELUXE too often has dull blades on its scissors

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Precise and engaging, Medusa Deluxe crafts a wholly unique experience for the audience.

| Jan 23, 2024

Medusa Deluxe is an ambitious and interesting but erratic murder mystery happening during a hairstyling contest. This frenetic dramedy would have worked better as a stage play. The characters are memorable though. The best scenes outshine any flaws.

| Oct 23, 2023

The clamorous lack of narrative development leads us to imagine that the text was only an excuse for the bold staging. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2023

If you aren’t prepared to see the loving satire of Medusa Deluxe the whole thing might fall flat like an under teased bouffant. It’s a “wavelength” experience and not everyone is going to dial in to it.

| Sep 6, 2023

From Perkins, Webb, and Meikle’s gripping performances to the stunning hair and makeup work from Chloe Dixon and Anne Little, Medusa Deluxe is a poignant murder mystery with a stellar cast and a killer sense of style.

| Aug 31, 2023

A whodunnit 'hair don't' of verbosity needing a bit more fabulosity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2023

Strong-willed hairdressers and their creative coifs highlight this amusing whodunit that’s both visually extravagant and tightly constructed.

| Aug 18, 2023

Writer/director Thomas Hardiman clearly had a ball developing this feature, which involves an elaborate hairstyling competition, an ambitious approach to a whodunit, and plenty of reasons to admire the carefully thought-out production design.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 18, 2023

Medusa Deluxe is what you would get if Ru Paul made a murder mystery Russian Ark – and somehow, it’s even better than that sounds

| Aug 18, 2023

The plot does swallow its own tail at some points, losing the pace of the whodunnit in favour of stylistic flair, but in a film that is at heart about competitive hairdressing, what’s a little murder when there’s pastel fontange coiffures on the line.

| Original Score: 16/20 | Aug 18, 2023

By the time the intrigue of the film’s niche setting recedes and its potential feels suitably squandered, we’re only a quarter of the way through, and from here Hardiman orchestrates a molasses-slow march to the finish.

| Aug 16, 2023

Like the beehives teased to the heavens on screen, “Medusa Deluxe” is an impressive, if somewhat empty, effort.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 15, 2023

A bold and energetic debut.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 15, 2023

An edgy, pulpy murder mystery that is propelled by a trifecta of excellence: cast, craft, and vision.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2023

A good chunk of this experience is literally watching people walk around, doing nothing, with nothing for viewers to do but admire the lighting and the detailed production design

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 14, 2023

Less a narrative than an exercise in snappy dialogue and cinematic style, both of which overwhelm what might have been an enjoyable riff on formula in an unusual setting.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 14, 2023

Thomas Hardiman may not have perfected the art of the bouffant just yet, but give him a little more time and he’s sure to style a masterpiece.

| Aug 14, 2023

Medusa Deluxe is a whodunit with style to spare.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2023

An inspired, darkly funny whodunnit that, for all its flaws, is still infectiously enthusiastic.

| Original Score: 74/100 | Aug 12, 2023