Nosferatu Reviews
It’s unlikely to linger as Eggers’ best, but it is thrilling in its own inevitability.
| Apr 13, 2025
Eggers conducts his "Symphony of Horror" with such dead seriousness it threatens to veer into camp. How much you buy into it depends on your embrace of his aesthetic. And rats. Lots of rats.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 5, 2025
Stunningly beautiful and atmospheric, with excellent performances from the cast, notably Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult. A standout amongst the crowded vampire genre.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2025
The Eggers version raises some of the most unique questions about the primary female character – especially as a sexual being – in any Dracula adaptation.
| Mar 26, 2025
This fascinating story of death and desire slowly succumbs to becoming the very disease it depicts, mesmerised by its own beautiful, soulless emptiness, fully open to the seductive corruption it so masterfully and pedantically conveys.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2025
The exquisitely crafted horror tale reimagines the 1922 vampire classic with meticulous historical detail, haunting visuals and an unforgettably chilling Count Orlok.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2025
As with many of the films of Robert Eggers, Nosferatu will likely reward many rewatches. Nosferatu is not only a work of passion from him, but his best work thus far. He will be hard pressed to exceed what he, and many others, have created here.
| Original Score: A+ | Feb 26, 2025
Its biggest miscalculation is in Orlok, who looked truly frightening in the previous versions but here could be mistaken as the heavy in an ‘80s-era NWA wrestling bout.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 22, 2025
The look of “Nosferatu” is the most compelling part of the production. This includes the visuals as presented by Jarin Blaschke who embraces every shadow as if they were actors.
| Original Score: A- | Feb 20, 2025
Despite the audience’s acquaintance with the source material, Eggers manages to invoke an overwhelming sense of escalating trepidation and morbid curiosity.
| Feb 20, 2025
Eggers has a skill for transporting viewers back to the era he's putting to screen, and this is no exception. Nosferatu is haunting, chilling, and downright evil.
| Feb 18, 2025
What we end up with is a new rendition of the old tale that's just different enough to make it feel fresh again, brought to life by a marvelous cast and a remarkable team of filmmakers & artists who give the film its perfect gothic look & atmosphere.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 17, 2025
...a progressively intolerable trainwreck...
| Original Score: .5/4 | Feb 16, 2025
Eggers' Nosferatu captures the gothic beauty of its source material, yet lacks the raw menace and originality that made his previous films unforgettable.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2025
If we're going to have a comfortably overfamiliar tale told yet again, the least the storytellers can do is bring a great deal of quality.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 13, 2025
Eggers has captured what makes Nosferatu a classic tale, imbuing the story with his own touches while keeping the theme intact.
| Feb 11, 2025
[Lily-Rose Depp's] performance is really something else.
| Feb 11, 2025
In choosing to make Count Orlok repulsive, you sap it of both the metaphorical potential and the effect you want on your audience.
| Feb 11, 2025
Eggers is trying to do something different than the other movies, but in a sense he's playing into the same overwrought scariness. The film could use a lot more lightness, if you will.
| Feb 11, 2025
Nosferatu is a hauntingly beautiful fever dream that’s gorgeously crafted and bloody terrifying.
| Original Score: A- | Feb 11, 2025