Despite Dymek's exquisite work and a good happy ending, Von Horn's film fails to confront the horror it depicts; rather, on the contrary, it only exalts the cruelty of what happens on screen. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 21, 2025

The power of Magnus von Horn's film is measured in the tension between the expressionist photography, in pristine and elaborate black and white, and the boundless sensationalism that runs through its plot...[Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2025

The world of The Girl with the Needle is a sinister one, where husbands can disappear in the war without a trace, and you can be thrown out of your home or your job with a moment’s notice...one of the year’s hardest watches and also one of its very best.

| Mar 5, 2025

The Girl with the Needle is an absolutely strong film yet artistically powerful, relevant, and the horror it shows is not a gratuitous indulgence...[Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 4, 2025

The ever-reliable Dyrholm is both charismatic and curdling as the grubby matriarch. But most of the film is writ large and affectingly in Sonne’s agonised face.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 28, 2025

A sensory experience that, despite its questionable dramatic twists, hurts and is difficult to escape. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2025

The Girl With the Needle is raw, unrelenting, and unforgettable—its emotional and visual impact heightened by masterful staging and an ever-present sense of suffocating tension.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 28, 2025

An important but deeply difficult watch inspired by real-life horror. Beautiful, brutal, and utterly unforgettable, it is a film that lingers in the bones, forcing us to reckon with both the past and our own present reality.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 24, 2025

With echoes of David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated international feature delivers several jolts, captivating the audience. The powerful performances by Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm are lasting.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 22, 2025

An uncompromisingly bleak black-and-white period drama and psychological horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2025

The Girl with the Needle is an attempt to understand what kind of environment would facilitate heinous acts of cruelty and what would make an individual see those acts as the ultimate kindness

| Feb 11, 2025

If you like the cinematographic period [of expressionism], this part of the history of cinema very early in the origins of the art, I highly recommend The Girl with the Needle. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 8, 2025

Spinning a true tale of abject horror into a complex yarn about motherhood, this Danish drama cuts right through the bone. Don’t see it with your mom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2025

Sonne delivers a twitchy performance, lurching from meek withdrawal to rage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2025

This is a depressing movie to watch, but it isn't boring. One good thing about it is that if you are feeling sorry for yourself because things are not going your way, you can take comfort in the fact that unlucky Karoline probably has it far worse.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 1, 2025

Its answers are uneasy and disquieting, and the true root of its horror.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2025

This Danish nominee for the best international feature Oscar is a disturbing mix of historical drama, psychological thriller and body horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2025

Even as The Girl with the Needle takes the viewer to dark and discomforting places, there is nuance in the process and an unshakeable trust in humanity that truly grounds this film. It is striking, vivid and altogether unforgettable.

| Jan 28, 2025

The film lays bare the dark underbelly of society, exposing the erosion of human values and morality in the face of despair and survival. It is a poignant and unflinching portrayal of a poor woman’s struggles during one of history’s darkest periods.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2025

Magnus von Horn here spins together a twisted Gothic allegory that rummages into themes of maternity, surrogacy and neglect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2025