The film is quirky, offbeat, and funny in its casualness with death.

| Aug 10, 2023

The inevitable laughs stem less from the killings and more from the eerily honest depiction of splintery romance once the honeymoon period is over.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2023

This dark comedy would be a devastatingly terrifying movie if it were not for the frequent moments of hilarity. As it stands, Sightseers is a pretty special and wholly effective mix of the two.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2021

This is a unique movie, and one worth seeing if you're the kind of person who likes sour candy. Don't go to the beach house or your friend's mom's cabin up in Big Bear. Stay at home and enjoy being alone.

| Feb 26, 2021

The film is a violent, hallucinatory Bonnie and Clyde story, tracing two youngish lovers on a gory rampage across the countryside. This film just proves once again that Wheatley has zero regard for convention.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 9, 2020

Initially sweet and good natured, only to become disturbing yet laugh-out-loud funny, Sightseers is a dark treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2019

Fantastic black comedy, burnt like toast. Unfilled expectations and the need to be loved turn into a hilariously horrific caravan trip for two strange lovebirds.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 5, 2019

There are few directors out there who can achieve the appropriate balance between horrific violence and laugh-out-loud comedy, but Wheatley's masterful touch makes this a consistently enjoyable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2019

Wheatley's control has never seemed greater, the music cues, the deft editing by Wheatley, Amy Jump and Robin Hill and the performances all so sharp that the film is allowed to be viewed properly as the gem that it is.

| Dec 17, 2018

It's hard to quibble with Sightseers, and its satirical, observational eye is spot on, mining to laser-like effect hitherto underdocumented subjects in British comedy cinema.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 9, 2018

At last, a really well-scripted and well-directed, funny British comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Mr. Wheatley doesn't trust his viewers to get the point and spends most of the movie picking the same scab.

| Aug 10, 2018

Not only is Sightseers a relishable achievement for its devisers, Lowe and Oram, but it enhances Wheatley's reputation as currently the most refreshingly offbeat and unpredictable director of British crime movies.

| Apr 9, 2018

The filmmaker's sense of humor is deadpan, but it might work better in the format of a half-hour sitcom.

| Feb 21, 2018

Here, Britishness is the horror. And that's really scary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2017

A must for cult connoisseurs who take their comedy strong and dark.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Sightseers is everything you could want from a dark comedy infused with horror and is by far Wheatley's most assured work to date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2016

It has a levity and self-aware absurdity that makes it not only a different kind of beast, but also another film that marks Ben Wheatley as a young director to keep an eye on.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 29, 2015

The film is certainly funny, but the laughs aren't as constant as you'd hope from a film like this.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 20, 2014

Uncomfortably lurching from broad slapstick to dark and sharp gore - often in the space of a single scene - Sightseers adds up to a rather jumbled whole, despite the punchlines hitting as often as they miss.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 25, 2013