Thelma is visually and sonically impressive, with images that linger in the mind long after the film has ended, but a superfluous narrative detour strips the film of any uniqueness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2018

The scary moments are there, but they take patience. And then they take you by surprise.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 18, 2018

"Thelma" treads the line between the psychological and supernatural, gracefully at first, and then with increasing abandon.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2017

Thelma is a beautiful and heartbreaking film that is an impressive addition to the coming-of-age story. A lady bird, indeed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 30, 2017

As a hushed, haunting portrait of a young woman reconciling daughterly duty and her own incipient power, "Thelma" feels like a stylish, timely allegory for the present moment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2017

It's chilly in Oslo, and in this movie; the better to sneak up on you quietly, like an unexpected shiver.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2017

Trier has found a new way to depict and talk about these emotions and experiences that most human beings know and can never really get over. His way is cold, deadpan, extreme, and very Scandinavian, and it's effective.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 29, 2017

The supernatural Thelma is the coming-of-age experience in a nutshell: It's all about finding out who you are, with all the invigorating uncertainty and ambiguity that entails.

| Nov 28, 2017

"Thelma" is tense, thoughtful and beautifully composed ...

| Nov 22, 2017

If you've ever held something deep down that nearly ruined you, then you'll relate to Thelma's plight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2017

While the film doesn't entirely deliver on its start, the overall mood remains pricked by a similar sense of doom and shivering unease.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2017

The ending is a little shy of perfection but Thelma remains a tantalizing gem.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 16, 2017

Enriching Thelma's chaos is the director's refusal to outright censure any of his characters, no matter the sometimes awful choices they make.

| Nov 13, 2017

"Thelma" exerts a grip of its own, not least when it presses against other genres, leaching details from both science fiction and horror.

| Nov 13, 2017

The spell it casts transcends the silly plotting. It puts you in a zone all its own.

| Nov 11, 2017

The level to which Trier is willing to lay Thelma emotionally bare is just as heartbreaking as it is harrowing

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 10, 2017

The dread in Thelma is not so easy to pin down, coming as it does almost totally through Trier's choice of visuals.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2017

There's too much undeniably impressive filmmaking to dismiss Thelma; there's too much uncertain storytelling to actually recommend it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 10, 2017

Trier is a ingenious filmmaker, and he makes Thelma visually compelling even when the story lazily turns to the usual scare-flick tropes.

| Nov 9, 2017

Mostly, and most satisfyingly, it plays with the female Gothic, those unnerving tales - churning with desires and dread, and quivering with anxiety and suspicion - in which women are at once the victims and agents of change.

| Nov 9, 2017