Weapons - Kritiken

...an engrossing, brutal piece of work...

...a righteous, fully actualized genre-bender in which writer-director Zach Cregger hones Barbarian’s blend of unbearable tension and dark humor to a new level of razor-sharpness.

The fiendish enjoyment of Zach Cregger's Weapons is in how slowly and sadistically it reveals the answers to its American Gothic mystery.

...its climactic image is a pointed, and unexpectedly funny, act of intergenerational warfare that reveals Weapons’s true message: no one’s ever really thinking about the children.

Cregger remains a remarkably confident and alluringly immersive director, constructing some wonderfully rattling shocks and moments of seat-clenching unsureness.

It’s intimate while also being epic, it’s scary while expertly utilizing humor as punctuation, and even the most dedicated cinephiles will be rocked by its surprises.

A wonderful mixture of bad vibes and macabre fun, "Weapons" is one of the best horror movies of the year...

Brace for impact. It’s a weapons-grade movie; deadly, viciously precise, an assault on the emotional psyche for the ages and easily one of the year’s best films.

An unnerving and thunderously entertaining horror triumph.

For every moment of electrifying horror, the film cleanses the palette with comic relief.

...a wildly satisfying antidote to the last 10 years of horror movies about grief and trauma.

...bold, crowd-pleasing, gleefully R-rated horror.

Can a film about missing children and grief be called a crowd-pleaser? In Zach Cregger’s hands, it feels almost effortless.

A twisted fairytale that bests Barbarian.