The script for Misericordia subtly weaves a web of drama, thriller, and dark humor that at times borders on the absurd. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 24, 2025

This twisty, ironical narrative didn鈥檛 impress me as much as it has some others, the characters鈥� irrational, under-motivated behavior making them somewhat less than engaging. But Misericordia is still offbeat and eventful enough to be worth a look.

| Apr 18, 2025

Misericordia may not be as floridly outrageous as its glossier cousin, Saltburn, but its earthy realism and refusal to meet genre expectations are arguably more subversive.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 17, 2025

Alain Guiraudie's queer thriller 'Misericordia' subverts its simple domestic setup with secrets, lies, and hidden desire.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2025

Voltaire once avowed: “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.” In a Guiraudie offering, God’s creatures might not be doubling over with merriment, but you do sense that several are ready to spout a smile.

| Apr 12, 2025

Though it starts out slow, it becomes a galvanizing work by a master director that reminds us of film's unique power to challenge, disturb, and ultimately transform our understanding of what it means to be an imperfectly lustful human being.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2025

Misericordia feels like a big metaphysical shrug, sluggish to the point of lethargy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 10, 2025

The cast finesses the material without a misstep as the pent-up townsfolk orbit around cryptic, magnetic J茅r茅mie, played by F茅lix Kysyl. P

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 8, 2025

It’s impossible to know everyone’s motivations, which makes the material so engrossing, as though Guiraudie invites us to understand despite admitting that most people’s desires are wholly irrational if undeniable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 6, 2025

The mysteries that are harbored inside of the characters may be hard to pry out at first. But look again, and you can deduce more about what lies under the surface and then consider what it says about you.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 3, 2025

What makes 鈥淢isericordia鈥� truly resonate is that they never overshadow its deliciously depraved story, nor dilute the finely orchestrated tension his film maintains to keep your heart pounding as you take it all in.

| Apr 3, 2025

‘Misericordia’ has a wicked sense of humor that sneaks up on you. It’s an uneasy, pokerfaced kind of comedy that thrives on the viewer stewing in discomfort over the increasingly amoral twists.

| Apr 3, 2025

Guiraudie's regular cinematographer, Clare Mathon, endowed Misericordia with a stifling Bergman-esque atmosphere, its murky secret places redolent of J茅r茅mie's psyche.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 2, 2025

The plot is smart, expertly constructed and very effective. But once you know the points on the graph where all that unfolds, Guiraudie and his cast are able to do something nearly alchemical.

| Apr 2, 2025

It isn鈥檛 entirely satisfying -- there are too many unfulfilled subplots and murky motivations -- but this intriguingly tricky drama has a perverse appeal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2025

One detects traces of Hitchcock, of Chabrol, of Highsmith in this thriller by Alain Guiraudie...but its streak of deadpan sexual farce is sui generis.... the bizarre mixture is engrossing and effective.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 1, 2025

Writer/director Guiraudie鈥檚 refusal to provide clear answers can be maddening, but adds to the increasingly surreal atmosphere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2025

A simmering stewpot of rural melodrama and murder that called to my mind both Patricia Highsmith and the late, great Claude Chabrol, only with a playfully mean queer subtext.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 31, 2025

Think Misericordia as stripped down, depoliticized, working class Teorema where one person seduces everyone around him willingly or unwillingly.

| Mar 30, 2025

Guiraudie is trying to emulate the same style of his biggest film but without shedding the humour of the rest of his canon and, unsurprisingly, it doesn’t work. The result is half-tense, half-funny and only half-weird, making a film that’s only half-good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2025