Perkins doesn’t maintain a consistent tone between the blood-splattered hilarity and the more complicated handling of Hal’s emotional state, and the movie suffers for it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 10, 2025

It's a rollicking good time. Theo James, as these two twins, is kind of fantastic.

| May 8, 2025

We were a little split on this. Yes, it's entertaining but the excess and overly-comedic tone may prove too much for some. Still, Perkins signature techniques shine through enough for this to be a winner.

| May 8, 2025

While The Monkey may not soar to the heights of Longlongs, it still cements Perkins as a major player in the genre, showcases the range of its main cast, and delivers another stellar Stephen King adaptation.

| May 6, 2025

The Monkey is a wildly entertaining film with a healthy dose of nihilism and a few gallons of viscera. It is a rocky road tonally, but baring through those missteps is well worth it.

| Apr 26, 2025

Nothing more than a geek show making the audience complicit in laughing at death while on-screen bystanders have no reaction right up to the point where Perkins dares to go for poignancy, still smiling as he finishes the unfunniest of jokes.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Apr 26, 2025

There is much devilish delight to be taken from guessing how the next victim will perish but the general concept does run out of steam before the end.

| Apr 17, 2025

The Monkey is gob-stoppingly hilarious to behold and filled with existential thoughts about life and death. Even though The Monkey is brimming with bloody carnage and festive annihilation, it struck me as a very personal film.

| Apr 10, 2025

...the movie turns out to be a dark, harsh, dry, completely absurd comedy. Much more immersed, for example, in the world of The Twilight Zone than in the world of Longlegs, but it is very easy to watch, very entertaining...[Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 7, 2025

The Monkey can’t overcome its messy storytelling to deliver on its potent themes. Disappointing.

| Apr 7, 2025

In a break from his quietly moody horror movies, filmmaker Osgood Perkins embraces strange, cockeyed humor and gleefully excessive gore for this inventive yet odd Stephen King adaptation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2025

Give us a dozen The Monkey sequels with more trippy nightmare sequences, unnerving death stares from the shadows, and unhinged music cues that are so loud they crumble part of your soul. Unpredictable. Crazy gore. Absurd. This is a potential franchise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2025

Like King’s short stories, there’s a freedom to The Monkey; it’s unshackled from the writer’s legacy but playfully opening itself up to his extremes of humour and depravity.

| Apr 3, 2025

Perkins doesn’t let the plot’s twists and turns get in the way of the fun. At the same time, he remembers that there need to be genuine scares, and he conjures an ominous mood.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 29, 2025

Perkins is letting his freak flag fly in The Monkey, and it pays off big time.

| Mar 27, 2025

It’s quite inventive and open-ended.

| Mar 25, 2025

Yes, this “Monkey” is a one-trick pony, but the trick never gets old.

| Mar 24, 2025

Perkins seems more interested in formulating a mirage of monkey shines in this tonally uneven take on a noted Stephen King short story which manages only to succeed in overwhelming not one but two vacuous characterizations played by Theo James..

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2025

Despite its proficient execution, The Monkey struggles to find the right balance between the absurdity of its premise and the seriousness of its main themes. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2025

The Monkey increasingly feels like a Final Destination variant with a nostalgic charm and plenty of allusions to Stephen King's entire oeuvre. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 17, 2025