While the exploration of the characters' identity follows trodden paths and is quite literal in psychological terms, the movie manages to deliver an effective story about survival instincts... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 26, 2024

It's mildly enthralling, I mean there is a lot that works, but unfortunately the filmmakers couldn't quite nail the ending, which is too bad.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2024

Ridley delivers her strongest post-Star Wars turn with a deeply empathetic character who is, throughout the drama, on the cusp of a breakdown, or a breakthrough. It’s powerful work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2024

A strange misfire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 12, 2024

Neil Burger does a good job with the film's pace and in shepherding strong performances from his whole cast, especially Prince as the young Helena.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2024

What I appreciated about this movie was how it captured trauma and selective memory.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Dec 22, 2023

The movie could have been a meaningful study of trauma. Instead, it gives in to the mechanics of a cat-and-mouse pursuit.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2023

For a while, “The Marsh King’s Daughter” feels as though it may be heading somewhere truly interesting, but, instead, it becomes a bit waterlogged.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 30, 2023

I was sitting back in my seat, nowhere near the edge of it. I would have liked to have inched towards the edge of it.

| Nov 29, 2023

This is a very suspenseful film, at times unpleasantly so.

| Nov 29, 2023

It's ironic that much of The Marsh King's Daughter takes place in a backwoods marsh area, because this entire movie is a soggy mess. It starts off as a monotonous drama and devolves into a series of silly action scenes that don't look believable.

| Nov 23, 2023

Ridley feels challenged in the right ways, while Mendelsohn channels another scummy character to strong effect. The stakes are just high enough to have kept me involved, and that’s fine for a decent paperback come-to-life situation.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 22, 2023

There’s nothing especially surprising about the way the film wraps up, but it still packs a mild punch, thanks to Ridley’s cold stare, borne of childhood trauma.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 17, 2023

A potent premise and earnest performances from Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn are let down by an under-written screenplay that submits to the temptations of its genre.

| Nov 16, 2023

The tale is too tame, its savagery held too much in check to truly hold the audience in its thrall.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 14, 2023

It might make for a better book but The Marsh King’s Daughter is a stiff and stuffy thriller, lacking in a tighter script, and any true energy to dig itself out of the mud.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 10, 2023

While the premise of The Marsh King's Daughter is rich with the possibility for how introspectively deep the story could go, it doesn't manage to get there.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2023

Rather than keeping us guessing or catching us by surprise, the movie goes the more conventional route, leading to an ending that's as far-fetched as it is predictable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 8, 2023

After a promising opening, “The Marsh King’s Daughter” quickly falls into a predictable and monotonous slog, plodding along toward an inevitable confrontation between father and daughter.

| Nov 7, 2023

On the positive side, the acting is good and the atmospheric setting is visually pleasing.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 7, 2023