Aided by an incredibly harrowing lead performance from Azura Skye, “The Swerve” confidently and unsparingly puts the audience in the headspace of its troubled protagonist.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 6, 2022

It seems unfinished and predictable as it traverses the common grounds of the genre to illustrate the psychological abyss of its protagonist. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 21, 2021

The Swerve is a cinematic experience that plays like a strange dream, the kind where the uncanniness seems to cause irrational fear.

| Aug 31, 2021

An outstanding debut feature from Dean Kapsalis, a psychological horror about a family whose central figure is suffering from a deterioration of mental health.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2021

The Swerve ... leaves out the explaining part, and just shows us the total annihilation of a woman from the inside out.

| Jan 27, 2021

This leads to a fantastic performance from lead actress Azura Skye who is perfect in the part and just becomes Holly and her struggles, emotions, and personality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2020

Kapsalis isn't nearly as clever as he thinks he is as his attempts at mysterious ambiguity comes off as vague and lazy.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

Skye's performance is a revelation, and her portrayal of Holly's quiet desperation that bubbles over into full-blown self-destruction by the end of The Swerve is something that deserves to be discussed for years to come.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2020

A raw nerve, sandpapered into oblivion. THE SWERVE dramatizes the way casual domestic slights can lead to outright emotional erosion. Azura Skye's performance is one of the best I've seen this year.

| Nov 3, 2020

As Holly, Azura Skye commands the screen with a psychological intensity as rare as it is compelling.

| Nov 2, 2020

It's a forceful debut from Kapsalis, but, wow, it is harrowing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 29, 2020

A relentlessly unshakable albeit unpleasant ride, particularly when filmmaker Dean Kapsalis slaloms around audience expectation, something he skillfully accomplishes for the first two-thirds of the picture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2020

a rough, powerful, disturbing character piece anchored by a frankly stunning lead performance by Azura Skye.

| Oct 19, 2020

A dramatic, compelling story of a woman truly in the edge. Azura Skye gives a masterful performance.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 16, 2020

While it's distressing to watch Holly crumble under the pressure, it's also impossible to look away.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2020

Skye's fantastically brittle and anguished performance elevates 'The Swerve' from a sharp little psychological thriller into a genuinely haunting character study.

| Original Score: B | Oct 8, 2020

One of the year's best, carried brilliantly by Azura Skye as well as Dean Kapsalis' assured vision that is on par with Polanski in terms of creating dread and tension in the midst of a mental collapse.

| Oct 8, 2020

The Swerve is a powerful and horrific film that won't loosen it's tightening grip around your throat, but it's one you should prepare yourself for...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2020

An intense, intimate and moving internal drama...a worthy beneficiary of the hunger for content brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2020

There isn't much comfort to be sourced here and it won't appeal to everyone's tastes but it is a very decent offering and remains a harrowing depiction of mental illness.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 2, 2020