Longlegs has the ability to make the banal suddenly and delightfully sinister.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2024

Longlegs' unsolved serial killer case is hugely unnerving. And where things land? I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Longlegs also continues to highlight that Maika Monroe is one of the very best horror headliners we have.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 23, 2024

Genuinely and properly upsetting.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2024

It’s a true sight to behold, but take care to not look too long. No matter how tightly you try to cling to sanity, one truth remains in “Longlegs”: We all go a little mad sometimes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 25, 2024

A palpable fear runs through Longlegs from the first frame until the last. It’s not the jump-scare tension of a slasher movie but something less tangible. You feel frightened without knowing exact­ly why.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2024

Part of what makes the film so effective is that it doesn’t really depend on secrets or surprises. The writer and director Osgood Perkins summons an atmosphere of dread so intense, it’s practically spoiler-proof.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2024

Does Longlegs expand our understanding of what a horror film can be? No. Was I scared? Not overpoweringly, though I did shift in my seat a couple of times. Is it creepy? Absolutely.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 18, 2024

It’s stunning how quickly it unravels into mediocrity after that interaction, how frantically it tries to scrub away any trace of mystery with flashbacks and voiceovers...

Full Review | Jul 17, 2024

From the outside, Oz Perkins’s Longlegs looks like just another serial killer flick, but it’s that rarity: a horror film that gives you a bona fide case of the heeby-jeebies.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2024

Among other things, the writing -- specifically a crude chunk of third-act exposition -- lets it down. But still, there is plenty to admire in this oppressively brooding and superbly acted chiller.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2024

The worst thing is Nicolas Cage in his most hysterical, unhinged, over-the-top performance since he played Dracula like a vaudeville act.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 15, 2024

Absolutely no one is phoning in “Longlegs,” and that commitment to craft and mood has an impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2024

Hums and buzzes with subambient threat. Uncertain shapes appear in the deep background. Monroe is first rate – pecking at her words like a nervous bird pecking at crumbs – as a woman who fears her own abilities almost as much as the larger satanic threat.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2024

Perkins twists the knife in elegantly troubling ways. There were multiple instances where I knew exactly what was about to happen, and I was still jolted out of my seat as if I’d just felt an electrical shock.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 13, 2024

What’s frustrating, though, is how the more the movie revels in its own ephemera, the more time it gives the viewer to get ahead of the story, with certain capital-R Revelations telegraphed way too far ahead of schedule.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2024

Oz Perkins’ adventure in toxic family dynamics — toxic in a way that results in copious quantities of spilled blood — hits so many of the beats from Silence of the Lambs that some viewers may wonder if it’s some kind of supernaturally-skewed gloss.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 12, 2024

For my (perhaps already cursed) sensibilities, Longlegs isn’t some unshakeable artefact of malevolence, and more like a knife in the back -- nasty, precise, and unexpected.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2024

Writer-director Osgood Perkins has come up with something fresh, pungent and visceral. It’s easily the most effective work of horror I’ve seen this year.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2024

So while "Longlegs" fumbles its landing, it serves to heighten what came before it, which is an incredibly effective boogeyman tale that's not easy to shake. It's a devil of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 12, 2024

Beneath the all-out assault of unholy style, this is a fairly straightforward, even derivative manhunt thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2024