Frailty Reviews

...a solid thriller from a promising first-time director.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Violent and ultimately uneven and unsatisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

An eerie, creepy, and original horror story...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Bill Paxton, longtime bit-player and significantly underrated character actor, makes his directorial debut with Frailty, a joyless tale of one family's psychotic cycle of violence.

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The film's just about perfect.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Feels like Sling Blade rewritten at a crawl by Stephen King.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

An overpraised thriller that's really as superficial as a bruise.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

The intricate plotting . . . reveals everything and yet, using the audiences preconceived notions, makes each fact a surprise and each fiction a shock.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

So grim, dim, and formulaic, that there is no room for any kind of visceral connection or genuine suspense.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

This looks - and chills - like the start of a very promising new career for Paxton.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Some good ideas went into the meat grinder, but what came out was largely uninteresting absurdist mush.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

'Frailty" starts out like a typical Bible killer story, but it turns out to be significantly different (and better) than most films with this theme.

Full Review | Original Score: B

A hot-acid concoction of thrills, spills, trepidation, and one of the most novel stories of recent times.

| Original Score: 4/5

This is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years.

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Actor Bill Paxton's directorial debut is a stark horror film full of surprises -- and genuine scares.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

An intriguing film about an unsavory topic.

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This film is a thinking outside of the box, an answer to viewers who think we can convince ourselves of what not to expect.

| Original Score: 4/4

It's all surface psychodramatics.

Full Review | Original Score: C

This is a horror picture for individuals who only like their frills to stay firmly on the surface

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With an admirably dark first script by Brent Hanley, Paxton, making his directorial feature debut, does strong, measured work.

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