Overview
- Critics widely single out Jacob Elordi’s sympathetic, commanding Creature as the film’s emotional center.
- Reviewers praise Dan Laustsen’s cinematography, Alexandre Desplat’s score, and meticulously executed practical makeup and effects.
- Several notices cite a slow, overlong first half and a roughly two-and-a-half-hour runtime, with the second half drawing stronger praise.
- Oscar Isaac’s Victor is characterized as unusually cruel and unsentimental compared with prior screen interpretations.
- The film is playing a limited theatrical run now, with a confirmed global Netflix release on Nov. 7.