Functioning as a warped fairy tale, Swallow poses provocative questions about the expectations imposed on women, and the psychologically damaging effects of a patriarchal culture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2023

Swallow has an uncommon raw power that most films can’t reach.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 27, 2022

Depending on where you land on certain things I can see the ending being interpreted as hopeful, tragic, or even repulsive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2022

The frames in Swallow transmit emptiness through extreme attention to stage elements with inert colors... [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 11, 2022

The film manages [well] a very complex and suggestive dramatic tone. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 13, 2022

A disturbing feminist fable that gracefully shines because no explanations are given to the protagonists actions. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 13, 2022

Swallow is an original and thought-provoking film with award-worthy central performance.

| Oct 15, 2021

The compelling narrative observes Hunter's stifling marital environment and delves deep into the psychological frame of mind that precipitates her self destructive pathological behavior. Haley Bennett's performance is awesome.

| Oct 14, 2021

The film is a bold statement about the internalized struggle for agency many women find they can only articulate through self-destructive behavior.

| Oct 14, 2021

Combining a cool Hitchcock aesthetic with 70s-esque suburban paranoia and a modern narrative sensibility, Swallow is an intriguing, exciting feature debut from Carlo Mirabella-Davis.

| Oct 14, 2021

Bennett's performance - combined with a moody score, stylish costumes, and vivid production design - makes Swallow as hard to ignore as the perfectly glassy, swirly marble that Hunter craves.

| Oct 14, 2021

Begins as a stylish discomfort-based comedic satire, but evolves into a heartfelt psychological drama about emotional meglect.

| Sep 13, 2021

[The film provides] a perspective that shifts seamlessly from cold objectivity to intense subjectivity.

| Jun 5, 2021

Swallow has all the makings of a great, unsettling film, but the only things that go below the surface are the objects that Hunter swallows. Too bad it plays it safe.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 17, 2021

Whatever.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 17, 2021

This is Bennett's show... It's a role you can imagine a young Isabelle Huppert playing, and there's no higher praise than that.

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

Resembling a fledgling Michelle Williams, Bennett takes the construct of the film and makes it a living breathing animal.

| Feb 17, 2021

Bennett, who's been largely off the radar for a while, is heartbreaking and, eventually, fierce as her character begins to crave change.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2021

Thoughtfully shot and written, it leaves us on an uncertain note, but is all the more provocative for that.

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

I only wish "Swallow" didn't hammer its themes home quite so hard, through dialogue, editing, and camerawork that never trust the audience to think for itself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2021