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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Original-CinThom ErnstOriginal-CinThom ErnstThe Sadness is good. Not just genre-specific good, but cinema good. And even when it arrives at the inevitable ‘who are the real monsters’ scene, The Sadness still has bite.
- 80Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganPaste MagazineNatalia KeoganThe Sadness is incredibly gorey and gleefully embraces just about every documented taboo—but instead of an exhausting edgelord sensibility, it accurately depicts just how little convincing a crumbling society needs to obliterate itself.
- 75The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakThe acts of violence writer-director Rob Jabbaz has his characters inflict upon each other are as depraved as can be and seemingly devoid of remorse.
- 75RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsThe Taiwanese horror movie The Sadness is both conceptually exhausting and viscerally upsetting—an ideal summer movie for the third year of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
- 60CineVueMartyn ConterioCineVueMartyn ConterioFor a debut feature, it’s impressive and thoroughly committed to its vision of Hell on Earth. The atrocities, bleak tension and stomach-churning imagery are unstoppable, the director deeming them necessary for maximum impact.