Lovely Molly Reviews

I don't think I've ever been so bummed out by a horror flick as I was by writer-director Eduardo Sánchez's Lovely Molly. And I've seen every single Friday the 13th.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

If the people in it behaved in a logical way, then there wouldn't be a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Silly Molly.

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Gretchen Lodge constantly rises above the film and the material. She alone provides good reasons why younger film-goers who are inexperienced in this type of horror might well find it gripping, shocking and enjoyably nasty.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Sanchez has not had an easy time since Blair Witch - and this hand-held rerun is unlikely to make it any better.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The film presents us with too many unearned revelations, and it unravels.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Depressing and lazily nonsensical...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

as perhaps befits a film about moving house, this mixed-media mindmelt requires a lot of unpacking.

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This succeeds thanks to Lodge's extraordinary central performance, a terrifyingly mesmerising study of a woman in diabolic torment

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[Its] cynical hedging of its psychological/supernatural bets seems mostly designed to breed sequels.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Lovely Molly leaves plenty to talk about, but it gives so little firm information that one wonders if there are really any coherent answers to be found.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The script lacks focus, the to-camera element doesn't add anything new and the film ultimately fails to provide any scares, beyond the odd soundtrack-assisted jump.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Impressive, if messy, the film combines kitchen-sink drama with found-footage horror, perjuring itself with too many plot possibilities.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Blair Witch veteran Eduardo Sanchez moves away from found footage to create an effectively creepy haunted houser with a strong central turn by Lodge.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Some of the shock effects in Lovely Molly are successfully disorienting, but too many of its ideas are reductive and histrionic, such as those concerning the male victimization of women, vengeance and mental illness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Sanchez ratchets up the tension incrementally - things heard and not quite seen - creating a mood of unease that graduates in stages into full-blown horror.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

I can't say Molly is lovely enough to recommend.

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An effective little shocker anchored by newcomer Gretchen Lodge's remarkable performance as Molly.

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Sanchez ... is not making his debut here, and after more than a decade he should be willing to do something besides jerking the camera around and making noises offscreen.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The movie's young lead, Gretchen Lodge, making her big-screen debut, demonstrates a natural star presence.

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