Nocebo Reviews
This is a worthwhile, twisty little thriller with some genuinely smart ideas within.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024
An act of supernatural vengeance and a whoppingly crude metaphor for the western fashion industry’s shameful history of exploiting southeast Asian labour markets. If you insist on a message, it should be buried deeper than this.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 9, 2022
I was once again impressed by Finnegan, and I suspect not for the last time.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2022
Actress Eva Green is always a good indicator you’re in for something stylishly weird.
| Dec 9, 2022
Finnegan and Shanley have artificially hefted more guilt onto poor Christine’s shoulders... Still, the use of deep-focus Persona-style shots of two faces aligned in uncomfortable proximity is striking, as are the eerie creaks and cracks
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2022
Director Lorcan Finnegan, working with a script by Garret Shanley, creates some unsettling moments and there are sharp prickles of commentary about our attitude to fast fashion and the workers who make our clothes.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2022
A dreadful psychological/supernatural horror pic about a fashion designer who can’t get her mind around a recent trauma.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 4, 2022
Even in a movie haunted by death, you need more signs of life.
| Nov 3, 2022
Finnegan juggles the script’s disparate elements with some aplomb, making for a sleek whole that’s entertaining if not particularly depthed or plausible.
| Nov 3, 2022
What would have made a great Tales From the Crypt episode becomes overlong even at 96 minutes—Lost-style flashbacks add depth but not revelation, as they merely make graphic what was already implicit.
| Nov 2, 2022