Saltburn isn’t going to leave you feeling warm and fuzzy, but sometimes, I prefer to feel horrified and giggling to avoid my own discomfort. Buckle up for some fun.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2024

Barry Keoghan steals the scenes. Keoghan plays a doe-eyed sociopath, obsessed, dark, and aloof, with such grounded insanity that it brings to mind his earlier roles in The Green Knight and The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Full Review | Apr 17, 2024

It’s impossible not to sense the film completely slipping from her once the narrative begins unveiling a bold set of reveals in this final third.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 25, 2024

It’s Gothic stateliness by way of Goth subculture -- enter at your own risk.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 12, 2024

These liaisons aren't nearly dangerous enough in Emerald Fennell's initially interesting but ultimately feckless exercise in the depravity of class issues and the polite homophobia of the mid-2000s.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 12, 2024

Writer/director Emerald Fennell helps usher in 2023 as the year that Cinema vaulted back to life, with a transgressive black comedy that splashes cum-soaked mud on corporate cinema with tireless glee. Comic book movies be damned.

Full Review | Original Score: FIVE STARS | Mar 11, 2024

You don’t get to feed us nonsense and then expect us to thank you when you try to explain it.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2024

Derivative it may be – the plot is a salad of ideas pinched from Evelyn Waugh, Patricia Highsmith and Pasolini – you won’t be bored for a second.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2024

It was impossible to shake the comparison to Ripley with Saltburn while I was watching it, but I still tried to revel in Fennell’s audaciousness, coupled with a truly game and committed performance from Keoghan.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2024

Exasperatingly toxic psycho sexual drama - that varies between bizarre and disgusting

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 2, 2024

A weird, intense movie that has the courage of its convictions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2024

Barry Keoghan gives a brilliant performance as the complicated, many-sided Oliver Quick, ably supported by the rest of this talented cast. Writer-director Emerald Fennell creates a wicked study of social classes with some surprising plot twists.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 28, 2024

Saltburn sparked discussion, but for all its stylized images and clever gendered trope inversions, its queer promises are empty.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2024

A great time produced by a great director without being a great movie.

Full Review | Jan 23, 2024

Saltburn is a brilliant movie that is almost brought down by a poorly written ending.

Full Review | Jan 23, 2024

Saltburn is pretty and plenty of its audience will delight in being able to say they were in on the joke whenever the film resurfaces on social media. A viral movie is not necessarily a good movie.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2024

A thing of grotesque beauty and sublime wit that is a testament to Ms. Fennell's talents as both a storyteller and a commentator on the absurdities of the human condition.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 22, 2024

Emerald Fennell's definition of subtlety is bashing us over the head with a small Le Creuset frying pan rather than one of their massive casserole pots.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2024

Saltburn may be nihilistic and nasty, shallow and insubstantial, but in its own weird way, it's effective.

Full Review | Jan 19, 2024

Saltburn is a delicious cinematic schadenfreude.

Full Review | Jan 13, 2024