A really cool concept with so many talented actors. However, that's about as far as it goes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 15, 2025

...an intriguing cinematic experiment that may engage only a select group of audiences but disappoint those expecting genuine horror.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2025

While Soderbergh is inconsistent in his attempt at manufacturing a tale of silent familial dysfunction and misery, Presence as a project still holds value.

| Apr 4, 2025

This simple, elegantly told ghost story—in which the camera takes the ghost's point of view—relies on vivid characters and emotional situations, suffering only from a somewhat thin climax.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2025

Come for the fly-on-the-wall look at a family unravelling, stay for the brilliantly conceived long-takes, clever misdirections and surprisingly deep and profound conversations and dialogue.

| Mar 25, 2025

The gimmicky trappings could have worked as a short, but in its compact feature-length form, “Presence” is a bit of a slog.

| Mar 24, 2025

More family drama than frights and fearsome bumps in the night, Presence is a well made film putting personal and group trauma under the microscope that could’ve done with an injection of edgy tension.

| Mar 24, 2025

With the skilled cinematography of Peter Andrews,...[Steven Soderbergh] creates an atmosphere that, in effect, seems otherworldly, making the film a refined exercise in style. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 24, 2025

It is great to see Soderbergh take the plunge and try to do something different in the supernatural genre. The film does leave some questions that should have been answered but the creativity more than makes up for that.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 23, 2025

A uniquely rewarding ghost story playin with familiar expectations, including with a homographic title which suggests our own complicity as thrill seeking voyeurs futilely observing the victimization of its troubled family, this may be Soderbergh at his..

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 21, 2025

The performances are top-notch, and more unsettling than the paranormal disturbances is the sense of impending tragedy in a very sad domestic drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2025

In the new family drama Trojan-horsed as a supernatural thriller (out Friday), the ghost’s purpose seems—refreshingly—like both pettiness and protection.

| Mar 20, 2025

...fans of the [horror] genre may be disappointed, and Soderbergh fans, well, if they are fans, they already know they can discover anything. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2025

By using the point of view of a supernatural being, Soderbergh...frees the subjective shot from its usual restrictions and turns them into strengths. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2025

If you go in expecting a classic horror story, disappointment is almost guaranteed. If you approach it as a stylistic exercise, as an exploration of point of view and absence, the experience can be much more interesting. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 13, 2025

“Presence” is a distinct experience, a film being marketed as absolute horror, but that actually plays out as a family thriller with a few suspenseful scenes and intriguing conflicts. [Full review in Spanish].

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 13, 2025

Presence is...an example of how to narrate in a concise 80 net minutes...a story with supernatural elements, the point of view concentrated on a “ghostly” force and a couple of clever twists. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 11, 2025

Soderbergh's mastery lies in creating a suffocating story within the four walls of a home, addressing the vicissitudes of a dysfunctional family over time, led by the masterful performances. [Full review in Spanish]

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

More than a conventional horror, [Presence] becomes a reflection on secrets, unhealed wounds, and family tensions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 7, 2025

Now available for rent/purchase on Prime Video, Steven Soderbergh's metaphysical mystery conjures up a dysfunctional family that discovers an elusive ghost in their recently acquired suburban home, but much of it makes no sense whatever.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 7, 2025