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Read from 67 comments (49 from Metacritic, 11 from Reddit, 7 from TMDB reviews) — 14 of them described how it moves.
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“The pace is slow, yet "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" is never boring.”
5rJoud · TMDB reviews ↗
“ALL of the performances felt flat and boring, and were all a fairly flat monotone that meant none of them stood out as particularly good.”
Landrin201 · TMDB reviews ↗
“The score was maybe the worst part of the movie; at several times it completely broke the little tension that the film had managed to create.”
Landrin201 · TMDB reviews ↗
“Nobody laughs, nobody gets excited, and there is never any emotion. The light held in their eyes is never bright.”
famfacat · Metacritic ↗
“Tension quietly gathers within.”
famfacat · Metacritic ↗
“a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat”
Jaspermeulendij · Metacritic ↗
Read 26 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
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“The Killing of a Sacred Deer is Lanthimos with the gloves off, and it makes the absurd, amazing “The Lobster” seem like a warm and cuddly experience by comparison.”
Jessica Kiang, The Playlist · 100
“When absurdism feels this wrong, you know it’s being done right.”
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100
“The rich vein of unsettling darkness and psychological unease that ripples like a treacherous underground stream beneath the absurdist humor of Yorgos Lanthimos' work becomes a brooding requiem of domestic horror in his masterfully realized fifth feature.”
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter · 100
“Farrell and Kidman are astonishingly gifted at playing the subtext of every scene.”
Peter Debruge, Variety · 100
“Working as a profound meditation on karma, predestination and guilt and a proper scary movie, this is near career-best work from all involved. Be warned: this is tough stuff.”
Andrew Lowry, Empire · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 26 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 76, the watch 50
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“I really like the film. I love how it feels like floating in a world but it’s never fantasy or sci fi. You feel all the space between the world. It’s good filmmaking.”
ElevatorSuch5326▲ 10read it ↗
“You didn’t “miss” anything, it’s just not all movies are for everyone. It’s ok if it didn’t gel with you. I loved it.”
-space-your-face-▲ 5read it ↗
“Thats why I didn't like it tbh. the whole curse thing works in the original myth, because its Greek mythology. its a world where curses exist. In the movie it feels like bad things happen to normal people in a normal world for literally no reason. Martin isn't some supernatural creature, hes just some dude who hated people and for some reason bad things that he said would happen happened. it might work if he actually did the bad things somehow.”
reditisrunbypedos▲ 1read it ↗
“I also loved Bugonia and did not like The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The other Yorgos movie I’ve seen is The Lobster and I really enjoyed it. In a way I think The Lobster is sort of a middle ground between the other 2 mentioned Yorgos films. Maybe check it out if you want another weird movie of his to watch.”
JaylenTatum07▲ 1read it ↗
“Nobody laughs, nobody gets excited, and there is never any emotion. The light held in their eyes is never bright.”
famfacatabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Tension quietly gathers within.”
famfacatabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat”
Jaspermeulendijabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“so tense the whole movie”
faunamabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“The pace is slow, yet "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" is never boring.”
5rJoudabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“ALL of the performances felt flat and boring, and were all a fairly flat monotone that meant none of them stood out as particularly good.”
Landrin201about 0–100% inread it ↗
“The score was maybe the worst part of the movie; at several times it completely broke the little tension that the film had managed to create.”
Landrin201about 0–100% inread it ↗
“My immediate response as soon as this finished was "MASTERPIECE." Lanthimos is back to _Dogtooth_-level craziness with this film and I couldn't be happier. _The Lobster_ was a favourite of mine in 2016, but something about this one's hopelessness drew me in more - odd, I know. Lanthimos' films have characters stuck in dead end situations where they are able to make a choice, but the results of the options are bad and worse. It's a dour story and the film is relentlessly unsettling, but this is w”
jessetaylorread it ↗
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