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By Tvjerry (1,783) on 17 Jun 2021

This was a breakout at the Sundance Film Festival, but I have no idea why…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 15 Jun 2021

The filmmaker assumes that aping the cheap aesthetics of the era are enough to establish style, and that making Enid a mystery amounts to layered…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 14 Jun 2021

The whole thing takes on a level of fractured fairy-tale storytelling that nods to both the Brothers Grimm and the father-figure Cronenberg…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Jun 2021

Censor is a bold artistic statement, inspired by the history of its own genre, though it’s not an uncritical assertion, posing complicated…

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By Jason Shawhan (7) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Jun 2021

Censor’s meticulous, insidious structure sticks to the subconscious; this is an auspicious debut in modern genre cinema…

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By Simon Abrams (730) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 11 Jun 2021

So while Enid’s investigation never goes anywhere noteworthy, Censor still fosters an increasingly desperate, anxiety-inducing effect…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Jun 2021

As a simple story of a moralizer being brought down by their own bloody instincts, it works; but asides about the catharsis of gore, and the…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 10 Jun 2021

A homage of sorts to the low-budget trash of the period — and a mordantly humorous jab at its excesses — Censor gazes on movie history…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 01 Jun 2021

The stern star and fascinating if limited peek into the world of ratings, even in a period piece set in a more conservative time, makes Censor…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Feb 2021

Censor wears its genre influences on its sleeve – The Shining, Cronenberg, Carrie and Peter Strickland’s similarly themed Berberian Sound…

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By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Feb 2021

Censor unfortunately pulls back from its social interrogation just when it’s working up a head of steam…

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By Lorry Kikta (141) for Film Threat (5,156) on 30 Jan 2021

Welsh director Prano Bailey-Bond’s feature debut, Censor, is one of those horror movies that sticks with you well after the credits roll…

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By Charles Barfield (33) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Jan 2021

Censor is an impressive, visually-stunning, deeply disturbing debut from Bailey-Bond and a showcase for Algar, who gives a truly spectacular…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 30 Jan 2021

With production designer Paulina Rzeszowska and cinematographer Annika Summerson, Bailey-Bond creates something almost unbearably close and…

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By Nikki Baughan (240) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 30 Jan 2021

Debut director Prano Bailey-Bond crafts a stylish, effective horror that is both an homage to genre cinema of that period and a psychological…

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By Joe Lipsett (87) for Consequence (296) on 30 Jan 2021

Despite a striking production design and the strong performance by lead actress Niamh Algar, the narrative familiarity of the second half and…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 30 Jan 2021

The movie shows the mark of a filmmaker in full command of vintage horror’s most disturbing strengths — and well-equipped to resurrect them…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Jan 2021

Steeped in the gory look, grimy feel and transgressive spirit of the so-called video nasties from the 1980s, British meta-minded horror movie…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 30 Jan 2021

It works as a loving homage to the era of slap-dash, go-for-broke ’80s horror, but it ultimately adds nothing to the conversation…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 30 Jan 2021

The tone oscillates between earnestness and mischief, a little uneasily…

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