We Need to Talk About Kevin Reviews

A high school killing spree leads to a captivating examination of parenthood and the 'nature vs nurture' debate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

A real-world horror movie -- for parents.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It may not be a crowd-pleaser, but it's not every day we get an emotional powerhouse of a film done this well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

We Need To Talk About Kevin is a brooding, unnerving but wholly rewarding film.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

It would be easy to say that the film would be nothing without Tilda Swinton. It wouldn't, but the narrative is quite engaging and Swinton's isn't the only terrific performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

There's an infinitely more impactful movie to be made that deals with the same subject but doesn't take things to an unrealistic extreme. A son that's not the very spawn of the devil is a solid place to start.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

One of the most chilling films of 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The best horror penetrates beyond external vibe to internal thought-process and the film never truly takes us within the mother's head.

Full Review | Original Score: 63/100

Un drama psicológico tenso y abrumador, en algún punto quizás insoportable. Al final, nadie espera que se entienda por qué pasó lo que pasó, pero sí al menos que se tenga una aproximación a lo que es vivir con una pesadilla a cuestas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Whatever you think of the philosophical weight of Ramsay's film - I find it ... less nuanced than David Foster Wallace's one liner that Hobbes was simply "Rousseau in a dark mirror" - there's a fierce integrity in Swinton's performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 83/100

Irony clashes with disturbing drama

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

A powerful look inside a mother's torment

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A pretentious, unpleasant, woolly headed movie that's nothing more than a cheesy horror picture for people who wouldn't be caught dead going to a cheesy horror picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Smug but fascinating: The movie is a woman's cry of anguish for an unjust world that enables men at all levels of age and power to get away with cruelty, brutality, murder and even war because, well, 'that's what boys DO.'

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Swinton doesn't say much; she doesn't have to. Her tear-stained eyes and anguished face carry all her emotions. In a career filled with so many terrific, subtle performances, this is clearly one of her best.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Rock Duer's a shoo-in if they ever make Satan: The Toddler Years and Jasper Newell manages to project an aura of pure evil even in pull-ups, but it's Ezra Miller as the adolescent Kevin who makes you believe you're in the presence of an American monster.

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Of all the nomination flubs made this past January by the Academy of Harvey Weinstein Arts and Sciences, the most egregious mistake was arguably the lack of a Best Actress nod for Tilda Swinton.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Watching it isn't easy, but it is definitely worth having waited for.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

A meaty, full-fat, marrow-rich, extra-pulp vision of the nightmare side of motherhood, given realism by a pair of all-too believable performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Stylized to the point of absurdity, We Need to Talk About Kevin is little more than a blank, tarted-up cartoon, where Ramsey's hyperbolic efforts seem orchestrated to camouflage the fact that she has nothing to say.

Full Review | Original Score: C