Guadagnino claims that his Suspiria is not a remake at all but a cover version. If that's the case, it can only be the equivalent of turning a three-minute glam stomp into a bloated rock opera.

| Jan 26, 2019

'Suspiria' is Its Own Beast, Casting a Hypnotic Spell That's Sure to Divide Audiences

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

Kajganich is a purveyor of pretentious piffle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2018

It sounds intriguing (and at times it is), yet too often the result is clunkily mechanical, tending occasionally toward the risible.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2018

The current Suspiria is always on the point of becoming interesting, but it never fails to squander that potential.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2018

Suspiria is a classy, tinglingly stylish, charismatically acted yet chilly affair that crescendos madly in the final act (surged on by Thom Yorke's score) into a frenzied, full-frontal, Grand Guignol finale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2018

Suspiria is too long, too empty with false fullness - those big themes that swell the stomach while providing no nutrition - and too keen to be visually and viscerally delinquent at every opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2018

A beautiful, resonant feminist fairy tale at least half grounded in German postwar realities.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2018

This isn't an atrocity on the level of, say, Rob Zombie's Halloween - but it is a horror designed to test your patience rather than your nerves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2018

What makes the new film compelling viewing is the extraordinary contribution of Swinton, who plays three roles in the movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 9, 2018

If you let yourself be taken over by its sinister spell, you'll be in for an unforgettable experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 9, 2018

Popular genres start to die the moment they become respectable and in that light, Luca Guadagnino's gory Suspiria is all the confirmation needed that the golden era of the splatter movie belongs to the past.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2018

[The new element] that resonated with me the most was the sense of history and survival -- the strength and resolve of this [female] collective making quite political art for 30 years.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2018

Suspiria is a statement and a question, at once. And, one of the best films of the year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 2, 2018

Ambitious, grandiose, occasionally compelling but far more often irritating and laughable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 2, 2018

The Argento is a marvel of style-as-subject; Guadagnino subjects audiences to second-hand shocks.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 2, 2018

The filmmakers' insatiable curiosity and grandiose sense of spectacle keeps Suspiria from becoming half as annoying as it should be.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 2, 2018

Dull-witted ostentation abounds in Guadagnino's Suspiria... Suspiria 2018 assaults the eye, distresses the ear, and maligns the mind.

| Nov 2, 2018

This is likely the love it-hate it event epic of 2018, and I can't imagine we'll see its like again soon at any point in the foreseeable future.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 1, 2018

Guadagnino is so intent on fulfilling his vision he doesn't seem to have room for any perspective besides his own, leaving the women in his narrative underserved in spite of his incredibly skilled efforts.

| Nov 1, 2018