It's crass and ghastly, with an on-the-nose premise fit for the often- sensationalist slasher genre and the salacious X-rated cinema embedded in this story.

| Dec 16, 2022

The characters are fleshed-out and kooky — you’ll mourn when they meet their inevitable slaughter. And for a slasher, the acting is remarkably good: Jenna Ortega and Mia Goth in particular are scene-stealers.

| Dec 3, 2022

X reanimates perennial fears of aging, older women, and one’s fading relevance.

| Nov 8, 2022

There's tension, proper fleshiness that makes the audience wince, and the actors seem to be really enjoying themselves. Entertaining and repugnant, in a good way.

| Apr 15, 2022

This is really great, a throwback to those grindhouse films of the 1970s.

| Mar 30, 2022

X is preoccupied with voyeurism across different generations, bringing together two genres - horror and porn - associated not just with the MPAAs X rating, but also with the male gaze. That gaze will be subverted and skewered...

| Mar 25, 2022

West’s trademark slow build-up gives us every chance to imagine our own version of the mayhem on the way... To hold our attention in the meantime, he has another trick up his sleeve: making his characters sufficiently interesting and likeable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 25, 2022

West just wants to punish everyone involved in gory ways played for laughs.

| Mar 24, 2022

X provides a map for how to do the classics right while still taking the formula somewhere original.

| Mar 21, 2022

I give West credit for having a vision and sticking to his own influences. He knows what he wants to do and how to execute it unapologetically.

| Mar 21, 2022

Ripe with playful winks and nudges.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2022

Sweaty, sexy and extremely fun slasher.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 20, 2022

Traipsing into danger is the essential playbook of horror, a path well-trodden. But the brutal, giddy-making X, written and directed by Ti West, makes that journey somehow feel both fresh and comfortingly familiar.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 19, 2022

Bloody. Brutal. Grungier than a big-city back alley and more guts-strewn than a slaughterhouse. This is how you like your slasher-flick horror, and trust us when we say Ti West has your back.

| Mar 18, 2022

Like most of West’s films, X is not particularly ambitious in its psychology or storytelling. It’s his technique that makes his work feel like it has one foot in the arthouse...

| Mar 18, 2022

X rips at the jugular with exuberant joy. This is old-school exploitation horror that isnt afraid to offend and doesnt care if the rough edges get sanded down.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 18, 2022

It’s deeply silly, but eminently watchable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2022

The rare recent horror movie that remembers the genre is at its best when its fun, depraved and undercover smart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2022

"X" pays off by showing what happens when characters are more than just meat for the grinder — or, for that matter, those doing the grinding.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 18, 2022

By fusing two types of films that have long been bedfellows -- slashers and pornography -- X makes for a gripping shotgun marriage of genres.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2022