Antlers
20th Century Fox Argentina | Release Date: October 29, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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91
Original-CinThom ErnstOct 28, 2021
Visually, Antlers is stunning as a portrait of a town dying. And there are plenty of gruesome, hide-behind-your-eyes scenes to satisfy most genre fans. But it's Cooper's commitment to his characters and the performance of the film's two youngest leads that make Antlers more than just a movie about killer—well, you'll have to see for yourself. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeOct 12, 2021
Thoroughly successful both as icky art house horror and as an allegory of generational trauma, Scott Cooper’s Antlers continues the director’s hot streak while bearing the unmistakable mark of one of its producers, Guillermo del Toro. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 27, 2021
Writer-director Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace, Hostiles) is an enormously gifted storyteller who infuses nearly every moment of this movie with a sense of despair and hopelessness, as some genuinely goodhearted but in most cases deeply damaged souls struggle mightily to battle a mythical, flesh-eating creature from the deep woods while also dealing with real-world trauma that’s equally frightening. Read full review
80
Little White LiesAnton BitelOct 22, 2021
Antlers is a slippery, troubling film whose ambiguities, despite one heavy-handed piece of exposition, remain intact even as the film’s identity keeps metamorphosing and body-swapping. Here, the beast within has always been there, lurking and latent as part of America’s constitution, and just waiting to bite back. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 12, 2021
What makes suggestion-driven Antlers so disturbing isn’t the movie’s tension- and dread-building mechanics so much as the way the filmmaker burrows into the minds of his two main characters. Read full review
78
TheWrapTodd GilchristOct 12, 2021
Committed performances by Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons and extraordinary young actor Jeremy T. Thomas vividly communicate the deeper emotional stakes of Antlers, if somewhat unfortunately without adding an ounce of fun or excitement to its mythmaking. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOct 28, 2021
It is a slimy, icky, violent film that doesn’t always come together but it also undeniably feels like it has emerged from the passions of its creators, particularly director Scott Cooper and producer Guillermo del Toro. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanOct 27, 2021
Antlers obeys the rules of horror — many of which are familiar, even at times cliche — while also bending them. It’s a creature feature at heart, yes, but its footing is grounded in the tragedies we hear about in the news every day. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleRobert MorastOct 12, 2021
Antlers is a very effective, chilling film. It doesn’t have the franchise flash of Halloween Kills or the bizarro artifice of Lamb, but there’s authenticity to this movie that’s so effective and, at times, emotionally overwhelming Read full review
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Film ThreatAlex SavelievNov 1, 2021
The exposition-heavy, cluttered finale, wherein the plethora of thematic elements collide and threaten to implode, almost undoes the painstakingly built-up sense of melancholy/paranoia. Yet it’s refreshing to see a wide release aspire to be something more than just another creature feature, slasher, or zombie gore-fest. Antlers has something to say. It should’ve just spoken less, and more eloquently. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 26, 2021
There are some genuine scares, some gross-out moments and some heartfelt scenes between Julia and Lucas. The atmosphere is so thick you can touch it. This is a good movie and an interesting concept. But it’s not any fun at all. Read full review
70
IGNRafael MotamayorOct 24, 2021
Antlers is a satisfying, unsettling, and rather bleak horror movie when it focuses on its main creature. It’s also a thought-provoking character drama when it deals with parental neglect, but the two never properly mix, keeping it from being as great as it could’ve been. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattNov 4, 2021
For all its eerie scene-setting and squishy entrails, Antlers never really exposes the emotional guts of its narrative beyond the scope of midnight-movie horror; without that, it's just another nightmare fairytale leaning hard on heavy vibes and jump scares, and losing the forest for the trees. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Oct 29, 2021
The film’s aspirations to prestige smother its immediacy, the thrills of the genre it’s supposedly occupying. Antlers fancies itself a message movie, but on that front it’s muddled at best. Read full review
67
The Film StageErik NielsenOct 27, 2021
Antlers is at its best when grounded in familial trauma haunted by the mythical terrors of the beast. Read full review
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