Atom User Reviews for Lamb
Phenomenal cinematography and acting, as expected from Noomi Rapace. I went into this having seen no trailers or anything and I wish I'd seen literally anything else. I feel like I just got trolled. This movie shouldn't have been made.
It’s alright. A little underwhelming.
And if you don’t watch any trailers. Go see this movie not knowing anything and then I’ll make your experience 100 times better
Ehh
Not an easy movie to recommend. If you’re into slow, strange, snail-paced drama and cinematography you’ll probably enjoy the movie. If you’re looking for the twisted horror story the previews insinuated it’s a big ol’ NOPE. We enjoyed the file, but I would be very choice about who I would recommend it to. The audience around us was audibly disappointed and frustrated by the film.
definitely worth seeing... typical, minialist nordic dialogue, but definitely has menace, scandanavian brooding, and a couple of good twists
Not what the trailer promised. Very boring “horror” movie.
Metacritic
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 of supernatural horror, that ambiguity alone feels like a small, spooky gift.
Though eerie and quietly deadpan, the film circles its grab bag of themes for so long that it also becomes tedious.
No matter how pure your intentions nor how real your pain, these ancient myths all teach us, debts always come due, and the chilling denouement of Jóhannsson’s dark, deliberate debut suggests that is what Lamb is: a modern-day take on some ancient, pre-Disneyfication fairy tale or a nursery rhyme with a sinister history encoded into its Spartan melody.