The music's beautiful and specially paired with the beautiful cinematography in this film... I can't really say a lot for the acting unfortunately.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 26, 2020

In a career full of nutty, brutal, style-forward horror films, few titles on Dario Argento's resume are as strange, violent, or aesthetically singular as "Opera."

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 1, 2020

Opera is always heading backwards to move forwards, and ends, bizarrely, with its heroine crawling in joyous derangement amidst the primordial plants and critters of the natural world, in an ultimate act of atavism.

| Jan 21, 2019

Allowing us voyeurs to watch from the stalls as he demonstrates why he's such a master of his art.

| Jan 15, 2019

Opera sees giallo master Dario Argento working at his most gloriously OTT and this 1987 mystery contains all the traits you would expect from the Italian director: mystery, lust, violence and impressive camera work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2018

An exercise in extremity, always strongest when shunting things into overdrive.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 10, 2018

For every gorgeously composed moment we see of the Macbeth live performances (inside an absolutely stunning opera house that I wish I could make into my very own lavish home), Argento in turn delivers up a merciless and savage death.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2018

The color restoration is beautiful and Bluray shows off the color splendidly on home video. The singing is beautiful also. It is a pity the story was not more engaging.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 15, 2018

Storytelling isn't much of a concern for Argento (it rarely is), but his gonzo interests remain flared up, enjoying one last romp armed with a reasonable budget and creative freedom, clearly relishing his time experimenting with operatic extremes.

| Original Score: B | Jan 15, 2018

Movies like Opera can be treasures for minds inclined to dip further into the shadows. They are reminders that terror begins with uncertainty, not with howls of obvious pain.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 26, 2016

Italian horror master Dario Argento may have the most lopsided strengths and weaknesses of any director I've experienced.

| Original Score: 61/100 | Sep 26, 2009

An art film through and through, though it be an art film with an unusual number of bloody deaths... one of Argento's most memorable films.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 29, 2009

Argento's masterful use of colors and music keep help to keep the film feeling fresh.

| May 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2004

Stylish, but inane and sadistic Argento thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 3, 2002

Argento's Opera is a film of rare beauty, a celebration of love's absence and the ferocious force of the gaze.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 4, 2001

With its grand scale and brooding themes, the art of opera fits neatly with Argento's lavish stylistics and dark preoccuptations as a filmmaker

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 20, 2001