If Wheatley and his team had found a way to inject some of that delicious moral ambivalence into the veins of the film, Rebecca might be more worthwhile.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2024

The thirst for a sinister and mysterious Rebecca is a thirst that is never quenched.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 19, 2024

Rebecca feels sanded out, erased of all imperfection, identity and mystery.

| Jan 9, 2024

The casting is not the Wheatley Rebecca’s biggest problem, but it certainly doesn’t help.

| Aug 25, 2023

Netflix’s version of Rebecca gets lost in trying to balance so many genres in just one film.

| Original Score: C | Jul 24, 2023

Knowing very little about the original novel or other adaptations, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Rebecca. Not having the titular character physically appear but still having her be a major force in the film was done extremely well.

| Jan 22, 2023

Maybe Mrs. Danvers was right. This Rebecca has us longing for the original.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2022

It maintains a wonderful period feel thanks to Julian Day’s costumes and Katie Spencer’s set design. Laurie Rose’s stellar cinematography vividly captures the beautiful sun-soaked Monte Carlo as well as the gloomy, atmospheric Mandeley.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Ben Wheatleys Rebecca really fails to distinguish itself, ending up another by-the-numbers remake to be lost in streaming queues.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2022

While Rebecca will certainly not remove the sentiment from cinephiles wondering why a new remake was necessary, Wheatleys take surpasses the quality of the Psycho and Rear Window remakes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2022

Not only fails to live up to Hitchcocks classic, but it eschews much of the Gothic mood and atmosphere that distinguished the original book and film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2022

So here's the truth: This isn't as good as the Hitchcock film. But that Rebecca isn't currently streaming anywhere, so my advice is to check out this take, and then seek out the original for a juicy contrast.

| Sep 10, 2021

It's a shame that in adapting a piece of work with such ominous power, Ben Wheatley could strip it of all its psychological intensity and create a version of Rebecca so puzzlingly flat.

| Aug 28, 2021

[Deconstructing] marriage, and the British class system, through rendering a classic, yet deeply subversive tale of passion, bondage, illness and jealousy entirely soulless.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 31, 2021

[Rebecca is] a complete bastardization of the characters and themes in one of literature's great gothic romances.

| Jun 5, 2021

With these improvements to the characters, why then did I enjoy the film so much less than I enjoyed Hitchcock's? Why did I view Maxim as less appealing?

| Apr 28, 2021

As the feature's heroine herself learns, sumptuous packaging alone is rarely ever truly and completely satisfying.

| Mar 13, 2021

This new Rebecca, helmed by Ben Wheatley, is but an imitation of what Hollywood glamour and greatness looked like in 1940, produced by a studio that's in the midst of a long-term project to zombify that era.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2021

Not since Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho has a remake of a classic movie been more redundant.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 17, 2021

This Rebecca is a worthwhile blend of old and new, and it should be enough to tempt you to go to Manderley again.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2021