It's got teen romance, misandry, cannibalism, and synchronized dancing - what's not to love?

| Feb 17, 2021

I thought the movie did such a great job balancing the fantasy elements of the fairy tale with a grittier contemporary setting.

| Feb 17, 2021

The Lure is one of those perverse, intense, facetious yet perfectly earnest films that never stops having a good time-although its relentlessness means that the viewer might feel inclined to bow out of the festivities every now and then.

| Mar 8, 2018

The Lure is remarkable not just for its zaniness but for its willingness to let girls be girls. It's not a luxury often afforded to female characters, especially not in horror, and it's especially notable as the male characters are either food or flakes.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 8, 2017

A nod to politically correct species reassignment surgery livens the third act, but the film eventually sinks under the weight of its own silly excess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2017

The result is hallucinatory and puzzling, but never anything less than captivating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2017

Too bad the shipwreck of a screenplay can't keep up with the visuals, which are pretty great ...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2017

There is no continuity in narrative or character and it's all shot in an elliptical, heavily stylized, gaudily lit (much of it looks like it's shot through an algae-filmed aquarium) collage.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2017

A woozily entrancing mash-up, shimmying by itself in the corner of the horror-musical canon and sure to earn quizzically appreciative stares from genre enthusiasts.

| Mar 2, 2017

It's sexy, fearless, fun and unrepentantly nasty.

| Mar 2, 2017

Smoczynska's film swings and sways to its own eccentric beat, eventually branching out to also present portraits of adult longing and go-for-broke rebellion.

| Feb 3, 2017

As cinematic Frankensteins go, The Lure is far from seamless, but if the movies are where mad scientists get points for trying, this ambitious experiment in genre hybridity at least deserves some sympathetic dissection.

| Feb 3, 2017

It's the '80s rock musical with sex, mermaids, and murder you've been waiting for.

| Feb 2, 2017

A genre-defying film that blends elements of musicals, horror, romance, and fantasy into a contemporary fairy tale that celebrates the animalistic, the feminine, and the intimate intersections between the two.

| Original Score: B | Feb 2, 2017

The Lure deserves to be seen, though it's sadly not as joyfully deranged as it could be.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 1, 2017

Holding it all together is an exploration - always intriguing if not always coherent - of the myths and puzzles of female sexuality.

| Jan 31, 2017

Agnieszka Smoczynska's film is most poignant when it simply stares at its own strangeness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2017

Smoczynska handles it all with death-sexy panache, aided and abetted in this superior catch by some drop dead sexy cinematography from Jakub Kijowski, and a boatload of seriously eye-popping setpieces. More, please.

| Nov 1, 2016

If, ultimately, the film fails to reel in its audience, it is due to puddle-deep characterisation and a plotline which slows to a trickle by the third act.

| Sep 9, 2016

The filmmakers' enthusiasm for their characters and the vanished period setting is palpable, asserting a certain fatalistic charm of its own.

| Sep 9, 2016