Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller both give exceptional performances in the film of Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2024

Ramsay’s film uses evocative imagery and a non-linear narrative structure to create a stunningly observed series of disturbing scenes, which, as the viewer pieces them together, become so filled with dread that we squirm with unease.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 4, 2022

Without judgment, righteousness, or hopeful messages, it tells us the B side of a tragedy, the underside no one knows, but everyone opines on. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 6, 2022

A tour-de-force for Swinton who suffers through every scene and also, for the spectator... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2022

We Need to Talk About Kevin seems purpose-built to emotionally bruise.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 11, 2021

The film is interminable because it is so ill-conceived. Watching the hateful Kevin and the glum Eva for two hours is a painful experience. Moreover, the film exudes a general disgust for humanity.

| Feb 12, 2021

We Need to Talk About Kevin is in every sense of the word a masterpiece.

| Feb 10, 2021

Whether you are a parent or not, the film will move you to consider nature versus nurture...

| Mar 31, 2020

A truly unsettling film, Lynne Ramsay returns to the big screen in spectacular fashion with WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN; her directorial vision of this reverse-Oedipal nightmare is a fantastic film...

| Feb 13, 2020

Within the genre of maternal horror, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a doozy. It speaks to the worst human fear imaginable: that evil lurks, not in the outside world, but right at home.

| Jan 16, 2020

Would I watch We Need To Talk About Kevin again? Yes. Just to see Ezra Miller's performance and to try and figure out the psychological underpinnings that allowed this film to ever be made.

| Nov 26, 2019

Ramsay's directorial focus on aesthetics somewhat lessens the import of the subject matter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2019

It's nearly impossible to take your eyes off of Swinton in any film, and she's on fire here. But she's lost in a film that never quite figures out what it wants to be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 6, 2019

...when an actor create such a vivid and complex portrait of a maternal hell, it's a crying shame to see it upstaged by the director's over-weening sense of style.

| Jul 29, 2019

I may not have completely liked "We Need to Talk About Kevin," but because of Swinton I certainly won't forget it.

| Original Score: B | Apr 13, 2019

We Need to Talk About Kevin feels like a daring art installation, filled with the obvious color red as a metaphor. But it should have been more than a metaphor - it should have been about life and the awful ways it can end.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 4, 2019

It may be one of those pesky films that is awful to watch but is worth watching all the same. Oh, dear.

| Aug 31, 2018

It poses difficult questions, and perhaps has too easy answers. But it's a grueling and fascinating interview process.

| Aug 30, 2018

This nature-vs.-nuture argument is what gives the story its power; and Ms. Swinton does an excellent job portraying a woman ambivalent to the bone about her little boy.

| Aug 10, 2018

Lynne Ramsay's third feature is a mishmash of soiled diapers, leaden musical cues and underlined soul-sickness.

| Jan 9, 2018