Kendrick shows real talent in this, her first time in the movie director's chair. Her acting performance here is familiar. The character of Bradshaw is right in her wheelhouse. What's new is her performance as a director, which is something else.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 25, 2025

When the victims are pawns for the cat and mouse, it becomes about glorification versus abhorrence. When the victims become the point, we see the micro-expressions and backtracking and desperation.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 24, 2025

Kendrick deftly juggles timeline and tonal shifts to create a subversive crime thriller, with expected scares and unexpected empathy and humanity.

| Jan 3, 2025

Kendrick gives a credible and relatively low key performance as the woman in question who knows too little to go on a date with Rodney. One of her best gifts as an actress is being believable without having to overplay a role.

| Dec 29, 2024

Kendrick's directorial debut is assured and, in one incredibly evocative scene, harrowing. The split narrative distracts slightly from the story, but the film feels timely Zovatto is appropriately menacing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 24, 2024

Woman of the Hour is a decent film, but it is also one that has struggled to find a defining through-line in terms of story, character, or theme.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 24, 2024

Woman of the Hour does well by taking the serial killer story as the starting point to try and listen to the horrors of everyday livelihood of women, when their voices are not just sidelined, but practically silenced.

| Dec 19, 2024

Kendrick, making her directorial debut here, smartly doesn’t linger on the horrific murders Alcala commits, but she doesn’t shy away from them either.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2024

This spare, taut thriller uses the prism of a popular ‘70s dating show and a remorseless serial killer to offer up an acute critique of the times

| Dec 4, 2024

Woman of the Hour’s cleverly told story has been a very sobering refresher of how screwed up the world could be in its time period, and how much of that still permeates today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 3, 2024

The movie would’ve worked wonderfully as a claustrophobic chamber piece, but feels compelled to jump across timelines and juggle between characters with an haphazardness that only does it harm.

| Dec 2, 2024

Woman of the Hour is a remarkable example of how true-crime thrillers can be both gripping and socially conscious.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 27, 2024

Woman of the Hour is both entertaining and profound; a masterclass in subversion that toys with both genre and audience expectations. In a great year for both horror and societal criticism, Woman of the Hour stands as one of the finest films of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 27, 2024

An unnerving and engrossing addition to the crime genre.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 26, 2024

A chilling exploration of the intersection of violence and misogyny, brought to life by a strong cast and smart, sensitive direction.

| Nov 23, 2024

The film highlights the misogynistic and sexist dynamic that women face daily. Without being overly explicit, it's a powerful commentary on the manipulation and assault on women because of their gender. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 19, 2024

Scenes work thanks to a very strong direction, which is not common in a debut, the close-ups, framing, and changes of focus enhance the constant psychological tension. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2024

It ends up being a mesmerising thriller, through which Kendrick demonstrates a keen eye for image composition, blocking, and camera movements. It's a fictionalised true story that ends up feeling depressingly relevant. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2024

Alcala’s crimes—which spanned nearly a decade and claimed the lives of at least seven women and girls, though potentially more—are handled with care but without sugarcoating the horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2024

This 90-minute thriller has just enough WTF moments to keep you entertained. It’s not groundbreaking cinema, but it’ll keep you cozy and mildly horrified for one solid watch.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 11, 2024