The film’s overstuffed plot does not quite leave enough space for other film elements to “breathe”, but...viewing will be rewarded...given the film’s deliciously macabre atmosphere...and the unexpected twist-finale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2024

Isn't much of a penny dreadful thriller - there's too many red-herrings for that - but it does spill enough of the red stuff to satisfy fans of Victorian horror.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2021

You may still have fun with The Limehouse Golem, but you aren't likely to come away enriched by the experience.

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

It should be seen on as big a screen as can be with the color balance perfect to fully enjoy is darkly lush layers and the cast's acting in all its glory.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 16, 2020

Surprisingly, and thankfully, Limehouse Golem ends up becoming the film you didn't know you wanted yet are so glad to have received. It's perfectly pitched, with a tongue ever-so-slightly in cheek.

| Jan 27, 2020

The murders are gruesome and artful and production design is top-notch, but we'd trade some of it in a heartbeat for a little less "golem" and a little more living, breathing soul in the script.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 16, 2019

Riotous and gory fun, with some truly pantomime performances thrown in for good measure. It's just a pity that the story itself isn't quite as clever as it would have you first believe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2019

A Victorian thriller with rather heavy echoes of Jack the Ripper, this film struggles to rise above the murky atmosphere it weaves. And the plot itself is as dense as the low-lying London fog.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 18, 2017

The feminist critique is present in the dialogue and narrative structure, but it hardly feels integrated into the performances or the images. For all that Medina does with it, The Limehouse Golem might just as well have stayed on the page.

| Nov 10, 2017

...the best 19th century feminist backstage drama/murder mystery you'll see this year.

| Nov 8, 2017

The major problem lies with the story's all-too playful tone which diminishes the story's impact and the film's overall lack of originality.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 8, 2017

The solid cast, including Eddie Marsan as a theatre impresario nicknamed Uncle, and Daniel Mays as Kildare's trusted lieutenant, helps keep the story afloat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2017

It translates novelist Peter Ackroyd's densely historical and cerebral foray into the horror genre into an entertainment, without being weighed down by Ackroyd's numerous fascinating but imaginative layers and tangents.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2017

While The Limehouse Golem does offer the chance to spend some time with the companionable Bill Nighy, as a police detective in 1880s London, some viewers may wonder what he and they are doing there.

| Oct 12, 2017

The struggle to reconcile the star-is-born theatre arc with the meat of Kildare's investigation pushed me out of the movie entirely.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 12, 2017

As summer draws to a close, at least it's something different, the twists and turns of the last lap are genuinely good and the final dedication to Rickman distinctly poignant.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2017

The violent impetuosity of its last scenes perfectly transmit the spirit of a film that shows the construction of an identity from the grand guignol. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2017

The twists and turns aren't quite of Sherlock proportions, but... the film offers a perfectly engaging journey, with a delightfully unexpected final twist-within-a-twist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2017

The mystery is perhaps not enough mysterious, but the acting and the look and feel are worth the trip. Incidentally, one disappointment is that the plot has virtually nothing to do with golems.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 15, 2017

There isn't much resting beneath the hood, so to speak, just elements of genre and craftsmanship buttressed by good work from the film's leads.

| Original Score: 6.7/10 | Sep 14, 2017