…a dank and nasty thriller…the treatment is deliberately sleazy and borderline explotative, yet there’s also something absolutely chilling about the way Sisters plays out, particularly as a stern warning about the dangers of male power over women…

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2025

Hitchcock lies by telling you that you’re able, once the film is over, to see the truth. De Palma, in contrast, insists that the more you see, the less you know.

| Jan 31, 2025

A nasty, brutal, terribly effective thriller.

| Original Score: A | Nov 29, 2022

Sisters provides moviegoers with the special satisfaction of finding a real treasure while prowling cinema's bargain basement.

| Sep 28, 2022

The facetious dialogue is a wet blanket, and De Palma isn't quite up to his apparent intention -- to provide cheap thrills that are also a parody of old corn.

| Sep 28, 2022

De Palma is known for his wit, and it's the most enjoyable aspect of Sisters (the least enjoyable quality of the movie is the extended violence). The humor is generally puerile, but it's funny.

| Sep 28, 2022

During a second viewing, filled with the security of knowing when to look away, I was able to really watch the picture, and I found it to be one of the best thrillers I have seen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 28, 2022

Director Brian De Palma allows the film to wander. It can be asinine and obvious and you consequently doubt the director's sincerity. Then he confronts you with sequences well honed and splendidly sinister.

| Sep 27, 2022

In its modest way, Sisters is a triumph of style, a tour de force of storytelling with the camera that is as rigorous and disciplined as the gifted young director's earlier "Greetings" and "Hi Mom!" were freewheeling.

| Sep 27, 2022

Despite an absence of the tension necessary for a successful thriller, Sisters is salvaged by decent performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2022

Brian De Palma is an underground filmmaker of uneven reputation of uneven reputation and daring resource -- and Sisters, his latest effort, is a poor man's Psycho.

| Sep 27, 2022

Unhappily, no trace of the tension and horror that characterize Hitchcock's work emerges from this listless and often dull tale.

| Sep 27, 2022

One of the year's surprises. It is a tense, well-made shocker in the classic Hitchcock tradition.

| Sep 27, 2022

A slasher horror film and psychological thriller that defines the semblants of [De Palma] aesthetics by establishing visual parameters that are very shocking. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 6, 2020

By injecting his wry humor into Guignol De Palma makes it grand again. He's walking a tightrope and I hope he stays on it.

| Jun 30, 2020

While it's a potentially a spurious masquerade as a horror film, Sisters is a fantastic psychological genre exercise from Brian De Palma.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2018

It's a surprising sensitivity to be found within the ingredients of a high-grade B-movie. However, De Palma has spent his lifetime pushing past and, at his best, transcending the limits of genre pictures.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 17, 2018

An effective thriller, Sisters is an intense tightly executed slasher, which fans of the directors later work will revel in

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2018

The succession of references stops just short of the risible, while the use of the split-screen to show scenes from different angles and the elaborate tracking shots indicate the arrival of a prodigious new stylist forging an original signature.

| Oct 3, 2018

An expertly paced, technically audacious thriller that's too knowing to be easily dismissed as a mere exercise.

| Oct 3, 2018