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Thelma plays with genre tropes in unexpected ways, delivering a thoughtfully twisty supernatural thriller with a lingering impact.
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The scary moments are there, but they take patience. And then they take you by surprise. Jan 18, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The scary moments are there, but they take patience. And then they take you by surprise.
Peter Keough
"Thelma" treads the line between the psychological and supernatural, gracefully at first, and then with increasing abandon. Dec 7, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
"Thelma" treads the line between the psychological and supernatural, gracefully at first, and then with increasing abandon.
Barbara VanDenburgh
As a hushed, haunting portrait of a young woman reconciling daughterly duty and her own incipient power, "Thelma" feels like a stylish, timely allegory for the present moment. Nov 30, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
As a hushed, haunting portrait of a young woman reconciling daughterly duty and her own incipient power, "Thelma" feels like a stylish, timely allegory for the present moment.
Ann Hornaday
It's chilly in Oslo, and in this movie; the better to sneak up on you quietly, like an unexpected shiver. Nov 29, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's chilly in Oslo, and in this movie; the better to sneak up on you quietly, like an unexpected shiver.
Moira MacDonald
Trier has found a new way to depict and talk about these emotions and experiences that most human beings know and can never really get over. His way is cold, deadpan, extreme, and very Scandinavian, and it's effective. Nov 29, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Trier has found a new way to depict and talk about these emotions and experiences that most human beings know and can never really get over. His way is cold, deadpan, extreme, and very Scandinavian, and it's effective.
Mick LaSalle
"Thelma" is tense, thoughtful and beautifully composed ... Nov 22, 2017 | Full Review…
"Thelma" is tense, thoughtful and beautifully composed ...
Justin Chang
A beautiful and grim portrayal of growth and maturity under the shadow of horror. [Full review in Spanish]. Feb 26, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A beautiful and grim portrayal of growth and maturity under the shadow of horror. [Full review in Spanish].
Federico Furzan
[A] brilliant meditation on one young woman's discovery of the wants she has stifled for so long. Jan 17, 2019 | Full Review…
[A] brilliant meditation on one young woman's discovery of the wants she has stifled for so long.
Hannah Ryan
Trier (and his co-writer Eskil Vogt) thoroughly and skillfully align supernatural powers with queer discovery (particularly that of a young woman) in unexpected ways and do so without ruining the film with male-gaze shots. Jan 16, 2019 | Full Review…
Trier (and his co-writer Eskil Vogt) thoroughly and skillfully align supernatural powers with queer discovery (particularly that of a young woman) in unexpected ways and do so without ruining the film with male-gaze shots.
Ren Jender
Both a psychological thriller and a supernatural horror, at first glance much in "Thelma" sounds familiar - a teenage girl, extreme religiosity, sex, inexplicably smashing windows, a snake - but they never feel like tropes. Jan 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Both a psychological thriller and a supernatural horror, at first glance much in "Thelma" sounds familiar - a teenage girl, extreme religiosity, sex, inexplicably smashing windows, a snake - but they never feel like tropes.
Sarah Cartland
This odd, disturbing film is visceral but ultimately unsatisfying. Dec 4, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
This odd, disturbing film is visceral but ultimately unsatisfying.
Rania Richardson
Joachim Trier's supernatural drama is a moving allegorical tale, that feels more human than its genre-tinged narrative might suggest. Nov 12, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Joachim Trier's supernatural drama is a moving allegorical tale, that feels more human than its genre-tinged narrative might suggest.
Alistair Ryder
Such small emotions. Such large repercussions. Part Carrie, part Moonlight. Thelma explores our deepest desires and the expectations of the world that don't often align. This is all tone and Norwegian director Joachim Trier nails exactly what he was seemingly aiming for.
Super Reviewer
Though it may seem at first like an unoriginal combination of Carrie and Blue Is the Warmest Color, Thelma is a haunting and sometimes pretty tense film centered on a young teenage girl from a strongly religious family struggling with her sexual impulses and desires.
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