"The Killing of a Sacred Deer offers an unsettling and disturbing insight into a twisted world that’s actually not so unlike our own."

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2025

To Lanthimos, justice is messy and complicated. In real life, there are very little winners, but there are many losers.

| Oct 4, 2024

The usual stark realities we’ve been familiar with for how we see the ‘nati give way to the thrilling fun of Cincinnati as a dark and twisted hellscape out of The Twilight Zone.

| Aug 26, 2023

An absurdly funny and dread-filled experience, filled with Lanthimos' trademark wit and monotone performances. It won't be for everyone, but The Killing of a Sacred Deer is something unique and special.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2023

Lanthimos remains very talented, but this seems like a little bit of a self-misdirection away from an original visual language into the working through of influences that were seemingly already worked through.

| Jan 11, 2023

Lanthimos steeps The Killing of a Sacred Deer in menacing subtext and substance, never approaching a scene the way you expect, never allowing the viewer to guess what will happen next.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 17, 2022

Where the peril present in this psychological thriller should be raising heart rates, the slightness and dullness of its flatlined tone fail to move minds and elicit palpable responses.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2022

A chilling and nightmarish sort-of horror film that's easy to love and hate...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Nicole Kidman is just jaw-dropping... The situation will just blow your mind by itserlf.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 22, 2021

Lanthimos and Filipou have essentially taken a simple premise and ran with it, elevating it to unimaginably devilish and twisted heights.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2021

The picture is nicely shot and interesting to look at, but the story is a mess of actions and imagery that don't add up to a cohesive vision.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 5, 2020

An ambiguous masterpiece.

| Oct 9, 2020

Kidman expertly conveys a mother's determination to do anything it takes to protect her family in the face of her husband's failure, even if that necessitates an impossible sacrifice.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2020

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is utter nihilism in that it is not depressing, degrading, or angry. It simply is, and with that, it manages to be both terrifying and hilarious.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is like an episode of The Twilight Zone, written by Franz Kafka, and produced by Black Mirror creatives. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 3, 2020

As deliberately, stubbornly off-putting as it is, The Killing of a Sacred Deer is an endlessly fascinating watch and isn't easily brushed aside.

| Original Score: A | Jul 1, 2020

Lanthimos is so deeply committed to his concept, atmosphere, and general sense of weirdness that it's almost infectious.

| May 19, 2020

"Killing" is cruel enough to boil [director Yorgos Lanthimos'] 2016 The Lobster alive. But what balances the horror is a signature deadpan that dulls any stabbing pathos.

| Feb 8, 2020

Killing of a Sacred Deer aims for absurd horror but lands on the simply generic.

| Feb 6, 2020

As it's traditional with the Greek filmmaker, the pitch-black sense of humor is perfectly calibrated. The novelty here is the sense of despair that comes with the comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2020