Saltburn, through its portrayal of Oliver, asks the middle class to look at themselves and what’s really driving their anti-rich sentiments.

| Dec 8, 2024

Emerald Fennell’s second feature goes further than you’d think and finally twists the knife in your side, but you can’t help but be entertained.

| Nov 13, 2024

It shares a propensity for treating its characters more as moveable, quippy pawns than as real people, a problem that the strong actors can only do so much to fix.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Saltburn is a poignant satire of our society: from privilege to class struggle, the film highlights important issues we are more than familiar with today and points out the inherent contradictions within our world

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 14, 2024

In fully utilizing its stylish flare and top-class performances, the film desperately attempts to mask the fact that it’s simply a rehash of class examination that never even manages to formulate an argument for its motives.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2024

While its debaucherous presentation of lavish lifestyles may prove a bit much or strange for certain audiences, its strengths lie in its performances, assertive craftsmanship, and its critical, if perhaps somewhat muddy, themes on avarice.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2024

A delicious sort of contradiction in Saltburn sets the tone for the entire film.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 8, 2024

A carefully-constructed masterpiece...

| Jun 7, 2024

The film doesn’t really say anything new about the rich, or the social climbers who imitate them, but it’s plenty entertaining even as it veers into borderline camp territory in the final twenty minutes.

| May 29, 2024

Saltburn isn’t going to leave you feeling warm and fuzzy, but sometimes, I prefer to feel horrified and giggling to avoid my own discomfort. Buckle up for some fun.

| Apr 19, 2024

Barry Keoghan steals the scenes. Keoghan plays a doe-eyed sociopath, obsessed, dark, and aloof, with such grounded insanity that it brings to mind his earlier roles in The Green Knight and The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

| Apr 17, 2024

It’s impossible not to sense the film completely slipping from her once the narrative begins unveiling a bold set of reveals in this final third.

| Original Score: C | Mar 25, 2024

It’s Gothic stateliness by way of Goth subculture -- enter at your own risk.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 12, 2024

These liaisons aren't nearly dangerous enough in Emerald Fennell's initially interesting but ultimately feckless exercise in the depravity of class issues and the polite homophobia of the mid-2000s.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 12, 2024

Writer/director Emerald Fennell helps usher in 2023 as the year that Cinema vaulted back to life, with a transgressive black comedy that splashes cum-soaked mud on corporate cinema with tireless glee. Comic book movies be damned.

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Mar 11, 2024

You don’t get to feed us nonsense and then expect us to thank you when you try to explain it.

| Feb 8, 2024

Derivative it may be – the plot is a salad of ideas pinched from Evelyn Waugh, Patricia Highsmith and Pasolini – you won’t be bored for a second.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2024

It was impossible to shake the comparison to Ripley with Saltburn while I was watching it, but I still tried to revel in Fennell’s audaciousness, coupled with a truly game and committed performance from Keoghan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2024

Exasperatingly toxic psycho sexual drama - that varies between bizarre and disgusting

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 2, 2024

A weird, intense movie that has the courage of its convictions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2024