59
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeMeticulously acted, gorgeously shot and hilariously insightful about the strange, inarticulable ways people can get on one another’s nerves, this psychological thriller takes its premise to surprising, darkly comic extremes.
- 60EmpireDavid HughesEmpireDavid HughesChilean writer-director Sebastián Silva’s neither-fish-nor-fowl narrative plays tricks on our minds, without fully engaging our senses.
- 60The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasThe film falls apart once its mysteries dissipate. With them go all the dark ambiguities that colored the first hour.
- The script unsettles, but never scares, so it doesn't work as a horror film. It's also not a convincing chronicle of deteriorating mental illness.
- 60Total FilmMatt GlasbyTotal FilmMatt GlasbyIt ebbs away at the climax, but there’s 45 minutes where it sings loud and strange.
- 60Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonTime Out LondonTom HuddlestonThe first half of Magic Magic is greatly enjoyable... Sadly, director Sebastián Silva isn’t sure where to take his characters.
- 42The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezThere’s a terrific ensemble at the heart of Magic Magic, including its talented director, but this psychological horror is only creepily superficial and has very little of anything insightful to say about people, its characters or its lead.