I recommend it to fans of the genre who are just looking for something new to watch, but it’s nothing super special or memorable.

| Original Score: C | Mar 8, 2023

It’s a competent watch, but don’t expect to remember it by the time you get to your car.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 17, 2022

Patience is rewarded time and time again by genuinely scary scenes.

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

The Prodigy tips its hand early, but that's okay.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 29, 2021

If you can think of it, The Prodigy apes it: The Omen, Exorcist III, The Good Son, Orphan, and even touches of Child's Play are all on display here but without the knowingness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2020

The Prodigy never quite goes deeper than its boilerplate premise. That doesn't make it a bad movie, but it also doesn't make it a particularly interesting one either.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 2, 2020

The Prodigy tries to use elements of horror classics to make something new but completely misses the mark. It never decides if it wants to be a mystical horror or a realistic horror movie and it fails because of it.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 10, 2020

There are a couple moments when it works... [but] I would say go back and watch The Omen or The Bad Seed [instead].

| Sep 18, 2019

THE PRODIGY...[has] some good performances, and a few well-done spooky moments, but mostly it's a composite of clichéd dialogue, lazy plot contrivances, and a lack of any emotional center.

| Jul 12, 2019

The Prodigy shows flickers of something better, moments of adrenaline-fueled thrills and unconventional jolts, but ultimately they're lost in an over-familiar plot.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 20, 2019

swings wildly from agreeably scary to shockingly silly

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2019

A stock bad seed thriller that just about hits the beats and has a couple of decent creepy bits which keep it from being terrible.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2019

It's a bone-chilling blast of a horror film that wakes up the normally sleepy first quarter of the year.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 30, 2019

Given its status as pretty standard genre fare on the surface, the film goes down as a pleasant surprise and one that embraces its dark heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2019

... only mildly unsettling as its second-half twists gradually become more far-fetched.

| Mar 22, 2019

The film sets up so many ground rules for how its own plot is supposed to work before systematically throwing them all away that it has the feel of an exquisite corpse writing style that eventually resembled a horror movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2019

The film manages to install a climate of terrifying concern in the relationship between mother and child. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 18, 2019

It's all minimal, more creepy kid than outright jump scares, less tension than an unsettling feeling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2019

It was a solid supernatural thriller...I was looking forward to how they were going to resolve everything, and it kept my wanting more. I was interested.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 15, 2019

Not even an amiable central performance from Taylor Schilling...and some early atmospheric mood-setting can save this "demon child" knock-off from its ineptitude.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 15, 2019