A tactile and visceral sports drama, a low-key Larry Cohen-style horror/sci-fi city-based character study, a portrait of youth in crisis, a social epic, possibly an elliptically queer narrative, and a cathartic ode to performance...

| Sep 10, 2021

While leaving plenty unsaid, The Fits rarely achieves the thrill of discovery.

| Feb 10, 2021

As a declaration of a new narrative filmmaker, The Fits is a powerful, incisive, and thrilling one.

| Jan 6, 2021

The Fits exhibits a rhythm all its own as unique and spirited as the girls' dancing.

| Feb 27, 2020

The Fits is dark and cavernous, mysterious and pulsating, with a surreal take on adolescence and what it means to grow up.

| Oct 21, 2019

By leaving that underpinning ambiguous, The Fits becomes a welcome cypher. Excising any real specificity engenders a deeper sense of universality that allows the film to speak purely on something otherwise untranslatable.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jul 16, 2019

On a moment-by-moment basis, The Fits remains compelling, and at several points Holmer achieves a synergy that combines form and content into something truly singular.

| May 22, 2019

Royalty Hightower joins the list of great child actors for 2016.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 11, 2019

In lieu of character development, we get scores of shots of people squinting into the sun and staring into mirrors, while Holmer leaves the viewer to fill in the blanks.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 1, 2019

The Fits champions young Black women, but the true journey that Anna Rose Holmer takes us on transcends anything external.

| Original Score: A | Jan 2, 2019

Holmer's directorial decisions feel fresh and in control, well choreographed and making the most of the simple premise and singular setting.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 9, 2018

"The Fits" isn't perfect, but it's a great example of what can be done on a small budget with a solid cast and crew. A must-watch for any aspiring filmmaker.

| Oct 24, 2018

So while The Fits never presses towards any ultimate explanation for what triggers its eponymous condition amongst the girls, by privileging .. a demographic whose experiences are so commonly excluded ... The Fits is fundamentally ideological.

| Aug 25, 2018

Unlike the appallingly manipulative Swiss Army Man, a trite and showy film about loneliness that treats its viewers like freshman philosophy students.

| Aug 22, 2018

The Fits is equal parts dramatic and surreal, and on a larger scale, proves that creativity in the film industry is not dead.

| Aug 6, 2018

No matter the urgency or importance of this tale, it tackles issues and themes that an audience member of any class, colour or creed will recognise, muse upon and consider.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2017

Superbly surreal, it marks the impressive debut of a handful of staggering new voices in cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2017

Uses visual arts to indicate the interior sensation of one of the year's most fascinating and rewarding characters.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 1, 2017

If the fits are lemons, caused by metaphorical lead poisoning, then Toni's amazing closing sequence is lemonade.

| Sep 26, 2017

It is an excellent sample of [director Anna Rose Holmer's] craft, just not an excellent movie.

| Sep 15, 2017