A Cure for Wellness

"The only possible cure for 'A Cure for Wellness' would have been for the horror film maestro Val Lewton to have been summoned from the grave to chop it down to no more than 79 minutes." 

"You might feel like you’re in the company of a manic cinephile (...) You admire his devotion, his taste and his scholarship, but in the end the experience is probably more satisfying for him than it is for you. Still, the company isn’t bad." 

"By the end of the seemingly interminable 146 minutes, audiences will have already guessed the story's ultimate twists, although by that point it's quite likely they will have long since ceased to care either way." 

"The movie deprives us of either a tragic villain or a sympathetic lead, hoping that its grab bag of squirm-inducing details (...) will suffice, when in fact, they reveal how a shorter, tighter treatment ought to have done the trick." 

"This movie's oddball structure isn't 'dream logic'; it's more like sitting there as someone describes to you this crazy dream he had." 

"A thrilling reminder of what can happen in the increasingly rare instance when a visionary filmmaker is given serious cash without constraints." 

"[It] is an exercise in watching a film continually stifle itself at its most compelling moments"