Raw is one of those horror films that really sticks with you. Not because it plants a horrific imprint on your brain but because it is a genre film with a real arthouse feel that further enhances the film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2025

A staggering film debut with "unflinching" gore and disturbing atmosphere, reviving the best of what became known as the New French Extremity movement.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2024

These crashes back into a messy reality invoke how the rise and fall of a plot arc represents a merely synthetic change. Actual transformation takes more than just giving into a gut response spurred by familial intervention.

| Dec 6, 2023

In juxtaposing her main character’s sexual awakening with her burgeoning cannibalism, director Julie Durconeau challenges the often fraught relationship between female violence and sexuality in horror.

| Oct 27, 2022

Full of visceral horror and a thoughtful meditation on the various hungers of youth, Raw is a blazingly original and confidently crafted debut.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Raw is one of few films in the "female cannibal" canon, one that flips the power dynamic of women in horror so they are in control, rather than afraid of, their own carnal desires.

| Oct 8, 2021

Terrifying and unsettling.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 25, 2021

[The] straightforward plot serves as a perfect canvas for the varied and complex themes explored by Ducournau.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 1, 2021

Mixing not so subtle metaphors of cannibal and carnal, Ducournau charges ahead like a juggernaut, one gross incidents after another with the similar energy that is usually reserved for macho directors (Gaspar Nöe comes to mind).

| Jul 25, 2021

A rich coming-of-age tale that swaps in cannibalism for puberty, Raw is a powerful debut for Julia Ducournau.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 21, 2021

Raw is the kind of expertly crafted feature debut that makes you immediately earmark its director as one to watch. This intelligent, female coming of age is a classic and deserves to be discussed alongside Ginger Snaps and Carrie

| Jul 10, 2021

A sizzlingly sexy and dazzlingly stylish cannibalistic tale which gives the viewer plenty to chew on.

| Apr 26, 2021

Raw dares you to keep looking through its stomach-churning, bum-squirming set pieces...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 23, 2021

Raw is quite simply a remarkable contemporary horror movie with bite.

| Apr 22, 2021

Julia Ducournau's feature film debut Raw joins the canon with the French teen-cannibal, coming-of-age story I didn't know I was waiting for.

| Feb 17, 2021

It's a nice piece of steak that's undercooked

| Original Score: B- | Jul 11, 2020

Layered and symbolic, measured and wild, and provocative as hell, Raw is a remarkable movie in a vacuum; it's a damn marvel considering it's a debut.

| Original Score: A | Jul 2, 2020

Raw jumps from body issues to family issues to social issues, and then does the full circle all over again. Overrated but intriguing.

| Jun 26, 2020

It's easily one of the most disgusting films I've ever seen, but it's also the most thematically rich cannibal film you're apt to find.

| Apr 15, 2020

RAW is vibrant, violent and vivaciously grotesque.

| Feb 13, 2020