The assured command of style situates Jabbaz as an impressive new voice in horror cinema.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2022

The Sadness is one of the more aggressively bleak, disturbing, and depraved horror films I’ve ever seen.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 15, 2022

Jabbaz’s movie isn’t exactly deep, but it does effectively channel his free-floating anxieties in ways both excessive and appropriately nasty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2022

Jabbaz's confident, daring debut operates on pure, unbridled fury. It's a vicious anthem that keeps you in its grip, forces you to stare into the abyss, and dares you to look away.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2021

It begins to feel like a series of episodic gross-outs more than anything with rising action or honest tension. And it feels thin on political or social commentary even though it's clearly trying.

| Aug 24, 2021