Atom User Reviews for Lamb

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Verified Review

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.

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Olivia S
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It’s alright. A little underwhelming.

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Michael R
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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

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Robert M
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#slow

Ehh

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Elodie D
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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.

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Megan R
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#didntseethatcoming

definitely worth seeing... typical, minialist nordic dialogue, but definitely has menace, scandanavian brooding, and a couple of good twists

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j K
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#snoozefest
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Not what the trailer promised. Very boring “horror” movie.

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Metacritic

83
Oct 8, 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 of supernatural horror, that ambiguity alone feels like a small, spooky gift.

Metacritic review by Leah Greenblatt
Leah Greenblatt
Entertainment Weekly
50
Oct 4, 2021

Though eerie and quietly deadpan, the film circles its grab bag of themes for so long that it also becomes tedious.

Metacritic review by Keith Watson
Keith Watson
Slant Magazine
70
Jul 26, 2021

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.

Metacritic review by Jessica Kiang
Jessica Kiang
Variety