Continually ignores opportunities for logical explanations, defaulting on a blame game between boomers and millennials as a reason for a literal clash in a haunted mansion.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 7, 2020

Ultimately, Tone-Deaf is brilliantly crafted, Crew and Patrick need to be applauded, Bates is at an all time high. It's sleek, smart, visceral, trippy and scary, Tone-Deaf has everything you could ask for.

| Jun 24, 2020

Richard Bates Jr. continues his quirky brand of blended genre in this entertaining look at the war of the generations.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2020

Tone-Deaf is a great film with a story that is just twisted enough to keep the attention while filled with great performances and some seriously fun and weird imagery.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 4, 2020

Bates clearly wanted to make something more than a horror movie but, in his assessment of intergenerational conflict, he is ironically tone deaf.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 29, 2019

It's an absolute riot.

| Oct 8, 2019

Gruesomely diverting and agreeably bizarre in shorts bursts but ultimately undone by its determination to use its characters as proxies in a facile, idiotic Boomer-vs.-Millennial culture clash.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 5, 2019

Taught, nightmarish, and totally bold, Tone-Deaf is a singular horror film that works as both a quasi-slasher and as satire.

| Aug 25, 2019

This is a quirky, cutting story of generation versus generation, refereed by a filmmaker who seems to find both sides fairly ridiculous.

| Aug 24, 2019

As the nightmarish imagery intensifies and the twisted weirdness escalates, the screenplay doesn't give us anybody to root for.

| Aug 23, 2019

In the end, Tone-Deaf proves to be a film that largely lives up to its title.

| Aug 23, 2019

A monotonous horror-comedy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 23, 2019

In going off the deep end with his satirical method throughout Tone-Deaf, Bates beats himself to the punch line.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 23, 2019

While [Tone-Deaf can be a rollicking good time] when stripped of the excess a peripheral cast ruled by convenience provides, those moments are few and far between.

| Original Score: C | Aug 22, 2019

"Tone-Deaf" is devilishly hilarious for the first two acts, diving into murky psychological waters to trigger some spooky and surreal stuff for genre fans.

| Original Score: B | Aug 21, 2019

One things for certain, while Tone-Deaf isn't the phantasmagorical head trip the marketing suggests, it definitely bends the rules of reality just enough to feel like you've gone on a journey.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2019

Tone-Deaf is a disaster when Robert Patrick is not on-screen, and even when he is on-screen it's only more of a watchable disaster

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2019

Despite some flaws, the witty script and solid performances still makes Tone-Deaf an entertaining watch.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Aug 15, 2019

The lack of commitment of its primary components prevents this from being anything but a mediocre affair.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 27, 2019

Tone-Deaf is acrid, caustic satire, but hard to shake off, and whether you're a millennial or a boomer, you'll find things that will hit close to home.

| Jul 25, 2019