Riseborough and Leigh’s scenes have the vibe of an emotionally taciturn girls’ day at the spa meets support group as Leigh seems less manipulative and more supportive in helping Riseborough get on the path of freedom

| Jan 2, 2025

With its grisly images of physical transference and its sharp, if deeply fatalistic, view of human independence, Possessor may be the smartest scary movie of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2024

At once viscerally entertaining and carefully disturbing, Possessor transcends its corny, ridiculous premise to give an upsetting sci-fi thriller that will stick with you like an infection. It is schlock manifested in a sinister, surgical way.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 13, 2024

There is so much stuff in Possessor that you might think you're at a venerable cinematic feast. But take away the squelching and splatter and there's barely enough to fill an episode of Black Mirror.

| Feb 7, 2024

Possessor is a taut, violent, science-fiction nightmare. A bloody tale reminiscent of an early Black Mirror episode.

| Jul 25, 2023

Possessor is a completely original take on the hired-killer-running-into-obstacles cliché.

| Jul 24, 2023

Just like Andrea Riseborough’s mental intruder, Possessor is a film that you will struggle to get out of your head.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

With moments of great drama as well as alluring psychedelic imagery, all aided by stunning cinematography and editing choices, this is a finely textured vision that is just as enticing to explore as it is repellent to discover.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 5, 2022

'Possessor' is a wild and particular brand of sci-fi entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2022

While there is nothing wrong with being compared to a master of body horror, Possessor removes Cronenberg from his fathers shadow to show an original, provocative, and ambitious auteur in not just one of the 2020s best horror films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

The scenario proves vaguely familiar, as science-fiction fans will recognize, but it's handled with such confidence and severity that it ignites a slight burn on the brain.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2022

Possessor is a complex film that requires an actively engaging audience, but also gives enough to where the viewing experience will be rewarding rather than frustrating.

| Feb 12, 2022

A true showcase of brilliant acting. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 6, 2021

If an artistically crafted, sci-fi thriller dealing with technology, humanity with body horror elements is your favorite, you may love this film.

| Sep 25, 2021

Possessor is a tough, grim, smart, hellishly good-looking film, completely committed to its own engines and determined never to let us off the hooks of voyeurism and complicity.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 2, 2021

Cronenberg's germ of a thesis in Possessor about the precarious boundaries between our various identities is still one that I find compelling despite the film's shortcomings in fully exploring them.

| Jul 12, 2021

There is a such a delicate balance undertaken here: Possessor is in turns shocking and tragic, suspenseful and inevitable, repellent and enticing

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 8, 2021

About half way through the film, "Possessor: Uncut starts to become a blurry mess.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 23, 2021

A much more mature intellectual exercise than [Brandon Cronenberg's] debut feature Antiviral. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2021

It's a tour-de-force of New Weird genre work, a blast of old-school body horror, and a strangely empathetic portrait of slipping sanity.

| Jun 5, 2021