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

This is a melodramatic tale of class disparity and imposter syndrome and compulsive jealousy and explosive fury, and the execution here is just ... tepid. Lukewarm.

| Dec 7, 2020

Overall, it's a highly polished and consistently enjoyable watch that feels a little hemmed in by convention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2020

This dreary, garish take on Rebecca never justifies its presence.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2020

A work of fierce interiority has been turned into a hollow exercise in exteriority.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 30, 2020

The rest is a bit of a damp squib.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 27, 2020

Everyone behaves themselves in this "Rebecca," whereas the point of the book and the first movie is that our worst behavior is always floating just below the waterline, ready to bob to the surface at the wrong moment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2020

Dreary and plain old boring. All early interest in the romance withers away as the characters become more and more distant while navigating the tiresome mystery.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2020

This Rebecca may not be as beautiful, as brilliant, as charismatic as the one that came before it, but it's the one that's available to us right now.

| Oct 24, 2020

There's no way to watch it without being reminded you could be watching Hitchcock's version instead.

| Oct 24, 2020

Ben Wheatley's remake of the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock classic simultaneously overcompensates and under-delivers.

| Oct 24, 2020

In its depiction of one woman living in the shadow of another, Wheatley's film proves, ironically, to be stuck in a shadow of its own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2020

The only thing that stands out is the atmosphere that Rebecca manages to create occasionally. Even in this, the film is more engaging in its first few minutes in sunny South of France, rather than in the imposing bleakness of Manderley.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 23, 2020

Hitchcock is by no means rolling over in his grave, but he might be rolling his eyes.

| Original Score: C | Oct 23, 2020

True love will win out, as far as the new take is concerned, even if it means glossing over everything that actually makes the characters interesting.

| Oct 22, 2020

Both Ms. James and Mr. Hammer are skilled performers, as well as attractive ones, and they go through the motions of a passionate love affair, but any passion between them is indicated rather than felt.

| Oct 22, 2020

Hammer and James don't sell any specific tone.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2020

[Rebecca] left me wanting more, this emotionally flaccid retelling of one of literature's greatest gothic romances a frustrating waste of time.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2020

Wheatley rejiggers this gothic horror story at every opportunity to cast the most flattering possible light on his blandly likable stars.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2020

This faithful, pretty-but-uninspired adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's novel doesn't breathe fresh life into the classic, much less eclipse the 1940 Laurence Olivier-Joan Fontaine version that garnered Alfred Hitchcock's lone best-picture Oscar.

| Oct 21, 2020