In the title role of Michael Almereyda's "Nadja," an elegant, witty but also sometimes tedious spin on the legend of Dracula, Elina Lowensohn is a black-caped beauty with a bold Frida Kahlo face.

| Oct 8, 2018

Not without interest, but less satisfying than even an average Hammer horror.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 20, 2009

This offbeat horror item works much better as a dreamy mood piece with striking poetic images and as a semicomic appreciation of a few quintessential low-budget actors than as straight-ahead storytelling.

| Oct 20, 2009

A lovely idea for a film that's been beautifully executed but slips too far off its narrative tracks to get where it wants to go.

| Mar 26, 2009

An idiosyncratic film, admired by many for its strong atmosphere, and by this writer for its absurd(ist) casting of a barely recognisable Fonda as Donovan's mad uncle Van Helsing.

| Jan 26, 2006

It is refreshing to see so much style and life in the old undead tale, and to watch this strong cast with its perfect deadpan attitudes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2003

It's the kind of movie that deals with unspeakable subjects while keeping a certain ironic distance, and using dialogue that seems funny, although the characters never seem in on the joke.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[A] genuinely affecting comedy-horror film that updates the Dracula lineage to present-day New York City.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Michael Almereyda's insanely brilliant fantasia on the Dracula legend.

| Jan 1, 2000

Even as Nadja descends deeper into its downward, surrealistic spiral, the movie's always great to watch.

| Jan 1, 2000

What could have been a brilliant short becomes deadly, stretched to feature length.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000