Repulsion is the scariest if not actually the goriest Grand Guignol since Psycho.

| Jul 27, 2021

The rest of the film has that gurgling, soapy sound of muffed intentions going down the plug hole like bath water.

| Mar 31, 2020

Deneuve, as the woman whose fear of sexual contact is at the base of her neurosis, has seldom been less like her icy self.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2013

A film that expertly shows without ever telling, even while the symbolism is a mite heavy handed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2013

There can't be many other films which so plausibly show an entire, warped world created from a single point of view.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 3, 2013

It's been an inspiration ever since for films about claustrophobic hysteria, but not necessarily in a good way ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2013

Roman Polanski's first English-language film is still a creepy little horror masterpiece.

| Original Score: A | Jul 23, 2009

At second glance, or as often as a moviegoer can bear to peek through his knotted fingers, it is a Gothic horror story, a classic chiller of the Psycho school and approximately twice as persuasive.

| Oct 19, 2008

Roman Polanski's first film in English is still his scariest and most disturbing.

| Sep 21, 2007

If hell is in the details, Roman Polanski has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of falling into psychosis.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 21, 2007

Deneuve, without much dialog, handles a very difficult chore with insight and tact.

| Sep 21, 2007

A potent cocktail of sexual repression, madness and violence, this chiller is one of Roman Polanski's best.

| Jul 1, 2006

Its two-way prism of audio-visual embellishments intuits a woman's fractured psyche and catches super-cool flashes of the audience's perverse cine-desires.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 14, 2006

The ordeal we and Polanski craved for Deneuve turned out to be just a sport, and we were the ball -- just as we'd hoped.

Full Review | Apr 11, 2006

Still perhaps Polanski's most perfectly realised film, a stunning portrait of the disintegration, mental and emotional, of a shy young Belgian girl (Deneuve) living in London.

| Feb 9, 2006

Prepare yourself to be demolished when you go to see it -- and go you must, because it's one of those films everybody will soon be buzzing about.

| May 20, 2003

A film that seems as fresh as the day it was released.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Repulsion is a frightening, fiercely entertaining experience that holds up to time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000