The success of the film lies in the performances of Mia Farrow, as Rosemary, and Ruth Gordon, as Mrs. Castevet...

Full Review | Nov 10, 2023

This box office hit emerged as one of the best chillers of its decade, and it still serves as a touchstone of the modern horror film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 28, 2023

Krzysztof Komeda's score sounds lush enough, and the track delivers all those muffled, half-heard conversations with an uncanny dislocation despite the absence of stereo imaging.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 27, 2023

Rosemary is everything. He's just Guy. It's that tension--between a woman fully actualized and a man forever frustrated, the Grail vs. the Knights of the Round Table--that serves as the tightrope...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 27, 2023

Polanski is less interested in terror and shock than in creating a mood of paranoia and instability. He finds the eerie in the mundane...

Full Review | Aug 19, 2023

... A claustrophobic horror that taps brilliantly into the uncertainties and queasy potential threats of childbirth.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2023

…stands alongside The Graduate as one of the paradigm shifts in how Hollywood thought about the 60’s sexual revolution; it’s a dark, wicked, ingenious work decades ahead of its time….

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2022

Its menacing atmosphere and disturbing psychology are unforgettable.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2022

The movie is a masterpiece of editing (by Sam O’Steen and Bob Wyman) and the acting is flawlessly delivered by a brilliant, tour-de-force cast.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2022

Polanski does not relinquish his personality to Hollywood; he proves that he can achieve dazzling success where many European filmmakers of his generation failed.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2022

Rosemary's Baby builds tension with masterful patience and detail, not because it relies entirely on the payoff of its devilish finale, but because Roman Polanski wants to submerge the viewer in paranoia.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

It's pure psychological horror at its best, elegant in a way that's rarely seen now, as the anticipation of what's to come and the walls of security and certainty begin to fall around Rosemary.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2021

Highly referenced throughout film and TV, its cinematic influences continue to hold strong, Rosemary's Baby a classic for the ages.

Full Review | May 14, 2021

Still stands as template of the film industry's far-reaching allure to achieve a European arthouse aesthetic successfully melded with mainstream pulp.

Full Review | Nov 18, 2020

The mood and presentation are all about shock and anticipation as a creeping dread permanently surrounds Rosemary's pregnancy.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 27, 2020

Does Polanski have to show us Satan walking around like some RKO matinee monster in a corny dream sequence right out of Juliet of the Spirts?

Full Review | Jan 30, 2020

How reassuring, really, to find a moderately sophisticated film where the colors are black and white again instead of that infuriating grey, where the evil is NOT banal but truely hellish.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2020

The fault ultimately is in the Polanski screenplay which overlooks character for effect, disastrously. Involvement is absent; all is surface and it is a smooth one, without the shimmer of the evil that is within.

Full Review | Oct 1, 2019

One of the best-shot, best-scored, and best-acted supernatural thrillers ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 9, 2015

Right to its bitter end, there is no escaping "Rosemary's Baby." On film Ira Levin's best selling novel is as horribly frightening as it was on paper.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2015