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By Alex Lines (84) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 22 Jan 2018

Thelma is great on its own terms, a disturbing but empowering supernatural drama that is bound to be beloved by genre fans worldwide…

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By Tom Meek (408) for Cambridge Day (227) on 19 Jan 2018

[Joachim] Trier weaves a weird tapestry that ensnares its heroine and the audience alike…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for The ARTery (128) on 18 Jan 2018

It's an expertly effective genre exercise that only occasionally feels like an exercise. A lot of the time it feels like an exorcism…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 17 Jan 2018

A moody, mannered, and lingering coming-of-age story with a Stephen King-like twist…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 11 Jan 2018

I am not sure of the audience Thelma is aimed at but the inherent horror story will be the draw…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 11 Jan 2018

A gorgeous film with stunningly dark imagery, but it follows too many other movies instead of its own path…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denerstein Unleashed (254) on 05 Jan 2018

Trier wisely leaves us looking for answers, giving Thelma a feeling of tantalizing ambiguity…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 31 Dec 2017

This coming of age movie reminded me a bit of a 1961 Twilight Zone episode, 'It's a Good Life,' written by Jerome Bixby…

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By Rafael Paz (51) for Butaca Ancha (324) on 27 Dec 2017

takes as a basis the legends and stories of medieval witches to represent the transformation through which the protagonist proceeds…

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By Stephen Carty (98) for Radio Times (2,421) on 21 Dec 2017

The whole thing is frustratingly slow and drawn-out, but this is the kind of film that seeps under your skin, and there is no doubt that it…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 21 Dec 2017

Trier finds as many scares in soft moments as in loud ones…

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By Alberto Sáez Villarino (72) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 20 Dec 2017

disturbing mystery thriller... [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 19 Dec 2017

What keeps it humming is Harboe's performance, and Trier's patience, evident from the very beginning when he takes his sweet time locating…

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By Al Hoff (171) for Pittsburgh City Paper (225) on 18 Dec 2017

Thelma takes its time, and I found my sympathies and insights shifting throughout…

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By Orla Smith (19) for Seventh Row (175) on 14 Dec 2017

Thelma succeeds as a character driven story, depicting more complicated, recognisable relationship dynamics…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 10 Dec 2017

Thelma is both more mysterious and more accessible than his other films. The spell it casts transcends the silly plotting…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 08 Dec 2017

There's a few effective scares and an overall eerie, subdued tone, but what distinguishes Thelma is that Trier brings the same depth of characterization…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 07 Dec 2017

Thelma treads the line between the psychological and supernatural, gracefully at first, and then with increasing abandon…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 07 Dec 2017

A mesmerizing story about a teenage girl whose repressed sexuality manifests itself in dangerous telekinetic and telepathic powers…

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By Robert Ham (9) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 07 Dec 2017

It keeps you waiting for the dam to burst-and makes the eventual deluge all the more satisfying…

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