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Strange Darling Reviews

...familiar territory that’s employed to initially standard yet increasingly thrilling effect by Mollner...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 12, 2025

Although it starts with a well-known premise, that of a serial killer, the director presents an original way of telling the story that ultimately becomes incredibly unique and surprising [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 19, 2025

Strange Darling isn’t a bad movie. It features some excellent performances and delivers the expected genre pleasures in a novel and unexpected way.

| Jan 16, 2025

...Strange Darling emerges as an intense, powerful, visceral, heartbreaking, disturbing and in its own way also seductive journey. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 14, 2025

This was such a surprise and absolute cinematic delight.

| Dec 19, 2024

This is the kind of fantastic filmmaking where you need to simply allow the non-linear narrative to unfold and strap in for the ride. Spoilers would spoil. Suffice to say, both Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner are smashing in their captivating roles.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 19, 2024

Part of Strange Darling’s charm is how many times it can fool you into thinking you know what’s going on, just to pull the rug from underneath you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2024

Visually, Strange Darling is a throwback to the classic slashers of the seventies, but with a key difference: the film does not resort to their "dirty" cinematic representations. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 19, 2024

Uniformally superb across all performances, Strange Darling belongs to its two leads, The Smile’s Kyle Gallner as the Demon and Willa Fitzgerald as the Lady.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 13, 2024

In times when social platforms say more than they should, go see Strange Darling as soon as possible, and you will surely enjoy it more. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 11, 2024

Shot on 35mm, it also looks great and the ethereal folk-pop soundtrack adds to the off-kilter and unsettling mood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2024

Strange Darling is quite the trip. Gallner and Fitzgerald excel and help audiences buy into everything that happens.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 20, 2024

"It’s abrasive when it needs to be, and omnipresent during times of mental rest. The score, the script, the cinematography, and the performances are all so flexible to where they form a single track of constant ups and downs"

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 20, 2024

Strange Darling has gory violence, but it's not the slasher horror flick it appears to be. It's a well-made, twist-filled psychological crime thriller that's propelled by a captivating performance by Willa Fitzgerald.

| Nov 16, 2024

Strange Darling is filled with shocks, surprises, humor, and a deep understanding and sympathy for humanity, including the human that would usually be considered the villain. It is a beautiful and ethereal ode to humanity and the roots of human evil.

| Nov 11, 2024

Strange Darling weaponizes socially and media-trained sensibilities for horrifying gain.

| Nov 1, 2024

There is a beauteously ruthless toxicity to Mollner’s cruel world that’s honestly glorious, and for those that get on his wavelength, Strange Darling is a great deal of malicious fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 28, 2024

Its non-linear approach helps you put it all into perspective. And just when you think you've nailed it ... well, just wait and see.

| Original Score: 4 stars | Oct 26, 2024

Strange Darling might just be one of the year’s most smartly written, directed and acted films.

| Oct 20, 2024

The beauty of 'Strange Darling' lies in a playful non-linear narrative, its untamed violence, and an applauded self-awareness with which JT Mollner captures the wild game of cat and mouse... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2024

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