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Saltburn

Saltburn

2023

Emerald Fennell

Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant ...

6.4

14,857

Drama. Thriller. Comedy An Oxford University student finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for an unforgettable summer.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Big on style but thin on substance (...) 'Saltburn' certainly has attitude, but nothing new to say"	NEU
United States	Tomris Laffly The Wrap	"Emerald Fennell Reinforces Her Cinematic Panache With a Delightfully Weird Drama (...) Barry Keoghan is brilliant in Fennell’s bold, if imperfect, ‘Promising Young Woman’ follow-up"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Another candied provocation whose imagery is more effective than its ideas. (...) “Saltburn,” by doubling down on all of the same plusses and minuses that made Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” such a frustratingly uneven debut"	NEG
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A spikily entertaining, narratively rackety ride led by a formidable Barry Keoghan"	POS
	David Katz Cineuropa	"[It] has enough pep, vim and style to carry it towards a tragic and bloody conclusion, yet its predictability and sometimes superficiality allow it to founder"	NEU
Canada	Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"Anchored by a strong, eerie performance by Barry Keoghan, 'Saltburn' is wickedly twisted, alluring, and darkly satirical, though it’s lacking some bite (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"With echoes of 'Brideshead' and 'The Talented Mr Ripley', Emerald Fennell’s anarchic class satire is the shot in the arm British cinema needs (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Emerald Fennell’s deliciously dark comedy sticks the knife into the English class system and gives it a proper twist (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Sophie Butcher Empire	"[It] is both evocative and provocative, with lashings of style but questionable substance. It doesn’t stick the landing, but the ride right before the nosedive is a properly enjoyable one (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A gloriously rude Rosamund Pike isn’t enough to save Fennell’s wayward tale (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"A sexy, mysterious, shocking thriller (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"[It] succeeds in slashing our expectations about how people are supposed to behave in polite society (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Amy Nicholson Los Angeles Times	"Fennell has an ear for cadence, and her editor, Victoria Boydell, has impeccable shock-comic timing"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"It seduces with every frame, but leaves you wanting more (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"Emerald Fennell follows up 'Promising Young Woman' with an equally provocative satire about the young, rich, and privileged — and turns the young Irish actor into a star"	POS
Canada	Alex Maidy JoBlo	"[It] is a solid sophomore effort from Fennell and cements that she is one of the most talented filmmaking voices working today, but it is not as balanced as her debut film"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"With affluent excess and some graphic shocks, tells dark, entertaining story (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Marshall Shaffer Slant	"A banal bacchanal (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is fun in a cheeky way that draws attention to its provocations. But there’s not much there there"	NEU
United Kingdom	Alex Flood NME	"Emerald Fennell's intoxicating new satire (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"There’s no denying the film’s gross and unsettling, but no one will ever accuse it of being particularly coherent"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Deadline	"What’s notable here is an undeniable, perhaps even insatiable desire to pack everything she can think of into the film, to propel the urgency, determinism and undeniable life force that is evident throughout"	POS
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"[It] is full of mind games (...) It’s fascinating and even downright scary at times (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] boasts dazzling turns from Rosamund Pike and Carey Mulligan, but the script could have used another all-nighter in the library (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Maureen Lee Lenker Entertainment Weekly	"A perverse, psychosexual thriller of the highest order (...) a transgressive tale of wealth, class, and desire"	POS
United States	Martin Carr IGN	"Emerald Fennell goes for the throat in this pitch-black social satire"	POS
United States	Jenny Nulf Austin Chronicle	"It’s a surface-level critique of the upper class and a style-over-substance poke at the out-of-touch aristocrats and the bitter have-nots (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Sharai Bohannon Dread Central	"Emerald Fennell has crafted an absurdly funny, dangerous, seductive world where everyone is more than they seem (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Wesley Morris The New York Times	"'Saltburn' is the sort of embarrassment you’ll put up with for 75 minutes. But not for 127"	NEG
United States	Alison Willmore Vulture	"While it does end up making being rich look pretty sweet, that's not exactly a revelation worth hanging a whole movie on"	NEG
United States	Courtney Howard AV Club	"Fennell fails to get under the surface to dissect their folly, and placing a modicum of rootable interest in this protagonist leads to a confusing outcome. Perhaps that's the real burn"	NEG

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