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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The PlaylistLena WilsonThe PlaylistLena WilsonA staggering accomplishment in its storytelling, visuals, and performance.
- 90Film ThreatLorry KiktaFilm ThreatLorry KiktaMirabella-Davis somehow perfectly captures a woman’s perspective on the twisted series of events that leads Hunter to where she lands by the end of the film.
- 80Screen DailyStephen WhittyScreen DailyStephen WhittyCarefully made and perfectly acted.
- 75IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichA provocative and frequently brilliant thriller.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenFortunately for the film, Carlo Mirabella-Davis continually springs scenes that either transcend or justify his preaching.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThere’s a touch of “The Invisible Man” to this unsettling story of the misery of being married to a cruel control freak. But “Swallow,” for all its People Magazine psychoanalysis, is harrowing in different ways and gripping in its myopia. All Hunter has is this mania for “control” of one thing in her life — what she puts in her mouth. All we have is worry over her mental health, and discomfort in confronting it.
- 75New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartBennett, who’s been largely off the radar for a while, is heartbreaking and, eventually, fierce as her character begins to crave change.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeA bold and unconventional thriller made real by the evolution of lead actress Haley Bennett ... Is it exploitative? Yes, to an extent that’s true. ... But, as in such Alfred Hitchcock classics as “Spellbound” and “Marnie,” with their facile psychoanalytic interpretations of compulsive and/or hysterical behavior, the approach can be quite effective in revealing the gender dynamics of the times.
- 50TheWrapCandice FrederickTheWrapCandice FrederickThere are really two contending films inside Swallow that, if given the opportunity and the space to do so, could have been fascinating as separate entities.
- 10The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesThe Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesThe idea is cartoonish in its essence but the pic is shot and played with such straight-faced realism that Swallow becomes utterly ridiculous.