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By Simran Hans (401) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 11 Jan 2022

Jóhannsson teases the possibility of a monster, but waits to reveal his hand. When he does, there’s more than a touch of gallows humour…

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By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 21 Dec 2021

The film as a whole is neither scary nor particularly interested in the nature of its ‘monster’, though it is undoubtedly strange and often…

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By Hannah Strong (63) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 14 Dec 2021

Lamb’s premise is intriguing too – a pleasing twist on the familiar horror trope of monstrous motherhood…

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By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 10 Dec 2021

The wild conceit is, against all odds, through smart writing and clever use of CGI and puppets, made palatable. The denouement is pleasingly shocking…

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By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 09 Dec 2021

Centred by a committed, affecting performance by Noomi Rapace, Lamb gets over its longueurs and missteps with interesting ideas, filmmaking…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 15 Oct 2021

If you can get on its moodily monstrous wavelength, the movie will have you asking why we let some animals sleep on our beds and put others in pens…

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By Sarah Bea Milner (33) for Screen Rant (892) on 11 Oct 2021

Lamb is a slow-burn suspenseful horror that eschews the genre's typical gore and jump scares, and instead frightens audiences with a nuanced…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 11 Oct 2021

Lamb preens and strains to be admired even as it reduces its characters to pieces on a game board and its actors to puppets…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 11 Oct 2021

What felt like an unusual metaphor for how parenting taps into an inherent need to nurture suddenly swerves into Grimms’ fairy-tale territory…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 09 Oct 2021

By the time the final act rolls around, Lamb approaches the idea that there’s a price that must be paid with a shrugging diffidence rather…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 08 Oct 2021

More Tusk than, say, the goat who runs wild in The Witch. I won’t make the obvious joke and say it’s baaad…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 08 Oct 2021

In scene after scene we don’t know what’s going to happen, but we’re sure it will be worth the wait, especially because of Ms…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Oct 2021

The movie's stark Nordic mood and obscure mystery are as coolly immersive as nearly anything on screen this year — and in the hammy world…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 08 Oct 2021

The result, for those who can overcome the substantial “suspension of disbelief” hurdle, is engrossing and unsettling…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 07 Oct 2021

Set on a remote farm in the Icelandic tundra that could center either a horror film or a children’s fable, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s debut…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 07 Oct 2021

While it’s not a thoroughly satisfying stew of style and substance—plus, it could’ve used some sharper scares—Lamb nonetheless leaves…

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By Jacob Oller (247) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Oct 2021

Bleak and crisp and cold as an Icelandic waterfall, Lamb is a movie with a sheepheaded toddler in great knitwear, the vague looming of something…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 07 Oct 2021

In what is essentially a three-human story (they’re outnumbered by their animal co-stars), Rapace brings the heart and soul to every close-up…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 Oct 2021

It’s a different register for Rapace, who remains controlled, with a few explosions of emotion…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 07 Oct 2021

Slow-moving and inarguably nutty, Lamb nevertheless wields its atavistic power with the straightest of faces, helped in no small measure by…

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