A hilarious and pointed examination of sexuality through meticulous retro pastiche with some highly entertaining performances, The Love Witch revels in its blend of thoughtfulness with B-movie camp.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2018

A side-swiping original that deserves its inevitable cult status.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2017

The film offers a brilliant spin on the genre's despicable gender politics, all the while relishing in the pleasures of its outmoded visual style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2017

Even if the climax doesn't quite have the kick we might hope for, cult status surely awaits this bewitching oddity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2017

A note-perfect parody of the British Technicolor horror films of the Sixties.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2017

The Love Witch goes beyond camp, beyond pastiche; it ignites the pulpy surfaces of its tale and produces a smoke of bad-dream sexiness and scariness. It's a B-movie with A-grade potency.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 9, 2017

The mix of am-dram solemnity, grand guignol and Terpsichorean time-tripping is hypnotic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2017

Even in the film's most far-fetched moments, Biller has trenchant points to make about conservative, middle-class America's fear of female sexuality and the double standards that apply to men and women's romantic behaviour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2017

A genre-stretching horror melodrama crafted with extraordinary detail and style. A touch languid, it's also mesmerising, provocative, unsettling and sensual.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2017

This is not a potion fit for everyone, but for a select few, The Love Witch offers powerful magic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 27, 2017

A modern feminist horror tale that rewards deep exploration beneath its admittedly beautiful surface. What looks like it might be simply a pure exercise in style not only invites multiple viewings, it requires them.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 9, 2016

There's nothing like The Love Witch, and that's a good thing, for if there were, I seriously doubt I'd be as captivated with this marvelous bit of murderous whimsy as I most assuredly am.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 30, 2016

Biller's visual splendor is ... wasted on a mediocre script riddled with structural problems. Scenes follow another willy-nilly, as if moved around late in the process.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2016

It's like a Bewitched episode stretched out to two hours. But boy, is it gorgeous to look at.

| Original Score: B | Nov 28, 2016

Is "the Love Witch" a parody? It sure feels like it. But I'm not sure Biller intended it to be one.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 24, 2016

It's a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 24, 2016

While The Love Witch leans heavily on its inspirations, it isn't like anything you've seen before.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 22, 2016

The fear of female sexuality has been a staple of horror movies forever, but "The Love Witch" does more than simply subvert or parody the erotic underpinnings of the genre.

| Nov 17, 2016

As with giallo, "The Love Witch" features deliberately wooden acting, and can be a little boring at times. But it's a stunningly photographed, fascinating reinterpretation of classic melodrama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2016

It's cloaked in a retro wardrobe and soundtrack (much of the music, by Italy's Ennio Morricone, is sourced from '60s thrillers) but loaded with irony and a fluid sense of identity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2016