[Lily-Rose Depp's] performance is really something else.

| 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

The film is fine — an artisanal horror made with care and invention. But... what sticks is the Gothic high style: queasy lamplight, small coffins, imperious doctors. All good things in context — but side plates in need of a dripping, rare main course. 

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2025

This is much more of a romp than I had expected.

| Jan 14, 2025

...most entrancing early on during its ominous, dread-soaked set pieces.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2025

Bill Skarsgård does his thing phenomenally, backed by top-notch prosthetic makeup and the use of a sinister voice. [Full reivew in Spanish]

| Jan 10, 2025

What Eggers truly comprehends is that Nosferatu is not about sex. It’s about power. Pure, malevolent, selfish, devastating power.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2025

Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp shine in this Robert Eggers take on the Victorian gothic, which pays due respect to Murnau's 1922 classic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2025

From a purely visual and technical standpoint, Eggers’ nightmare is a triumph in every conceivable way.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 6, 2025

It’s not the best Dracula movie of all time, though it aspires to that. Murnau’s original still leads the pack. But it certainly is the most stylish. Eggers is a filmmaker with astonishing visual flair.

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

It is gruesome and funny, with Bill Skarsgard as the vampire fanging it like nobody’s business and Willem Dafoe as occult ­expert Albin Eberhart Von Franz responding with melodramatic humour.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 3, 2025

Setting aside some gratuitous jump scares, Eggers has now made a Dracula movie that’s more than an exercise, more than an assertion of talent. There’s a vision at work.

| Jan 3, 2025

Acknowledging your sources is all well and good, but ultimately, you need to step out of the shadows of your inspiration. Robert Eggers is a truly gifted filmmaker; if only he had taken us away from all this debt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2025

Nosferatu is gorgeous yet inert, the cinematic equivalent of an exquisite corpse: There’s no point in driving a stake through a heart that isn’t beating in the first place.

| Dec 31, 2024

There’s a terrible beauty to it all and a seductive quality that makes Eggers’s febrile gothic nightmare a hard thing to shake.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2024

Fans of contemporary, jump-scare horror may be disappointed and "Nosferatu" isn't particularly scary. But Eggers has created an enveloping mood that is hard to shake.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2024

This update of the 1922 silent vampire classic will chill you to the bone. But it may not terrify you.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 28, 2024

Nosferatu is best seen without distractions, in a movie theater, preferably on a night of howling winds and lashing rain. It fully lives up to the subtitle of the 1922 original: “A symphony of horror.”

| Dec 28, 2024

The director’s meticulousness overtakes some scenes, crowding out any real sense of dread... Eggers always manages to freak me out, though, despite the occasional lapses into tedium -- he knows just how to evoke the simple fear of the unknown.

| Dec 28, 2024

Here’s your holiday counter-programming ticket to fear and trembling—a passion project for Robert Eggers who creates an atmosphere of creeping dread in which Bill Skarsgård and Lily-Rose Depp are to die for as a vampire Count and his trickiest victim

| Dec 27, 2024