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By Elena Lazic (92) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 13 Mar 2017

The film offers a brilliant spin on the genre's despicable gender politics, all the while relishing in the pleasures of its outmoded visual style…

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Review of The Love Witch (2016)

By Matt Looker (202) for TheShiznit.co.uk (506) on 12 Mar 2017

This colour saturated world of hokey pocus is truly intoxicating ... [but] I just haven't fallen under The Love Witch's spell…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 12 Mar 2017

Even if the climax doesn't quite have the kick we might hope for, cult status surely awaits this bewitching oddity…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 09 Mar 2017

LA film-maker Anna Biller achieves an ecstasy of artificiality in this amazing retro fantasy horror, delivered with absolute conviction…

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By Andy Psyllides (52) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 09 Mar 2017

[A] wonderfully entertaining hybrid of horror-comedy, soapy melodrama and 60s/70s-style sexploitation with a spiky feminist spin…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 09 Mar 2017

Embracing Russ Meyer-style kitsch, but overturning the horror genre's sexist tropes, Biller delivers wry comment on the objectification of…

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By Ed Potton (195) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 09 Mar 2017

A note-perfect parody of the British Technicolor horror films of the Sixties…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 09 Mar 2017

The mix of am-dram solemnity, grand guignol and Terpsichorean time-tripping is hypnotic…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 08 Mar 2017

Even in the film's most far-fetched moments, Biller has trenchant points to make about conservative, middle-class America's fear of female…

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By Tom Duggins (47) for CineVue (2,163) on 08 Mar 2017

It's brash and bright, with a plot that's improbable in the extreme…

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By Emma Simmonds (380) for The List (2,018) on 06 Mar 2017

This smart and sexy comedy comes cloaked in faux innocence; it's a glorious oddity which casts quite the spell…

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By Kate Stables (138) for Total Film (3,532) on 06 Mar 2017

Biller never lets deadpan fun drop into crude spoofing. Prepare to be bewitched, bothered and bewildered…

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By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 24 Feb 2017

A stylised invocation of camp 1960s Technicolor melodrama and 1970s Italian horror recast for an alternate history where the occult and gender…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 27 Jan 2017

The Love Witch handily achieves its goals, employing Biller’s strong sense of retro style and Robinson’s wink-wink performance to deliver…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for ArtsHub (131) on 08 Jan 2017

A glorious feast for the senses as well as for the mind…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 23 Dec 2016

A wildly assured, confident debut film, and one of the most visually stunning films of the year. (Splice Today)…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 20 Dec 2016

A retro 1960s film about witches, that puts a spotlight on their supernatural powers to drive men crazy over sex…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 17 Dec 2016

Mercilessly carve out a third of the running time, and suddenly we have one of 2016's best, most subversively smart and deliciously entertaining…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 09 Dec 2016

A modern feminist horror tale that rewards deep exploration beneath its admittedly beautiful surface…

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By Carlota Mosegui (11) for Otroscines.com (322) on 08 Dec 2016

Biller sculpts a very unique portrait of that era without putting to shame the films, authors and the elements in which it is inspired…

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