She Dies Tomorrow

"The Most 2020 Movie of 2020."

"Its plot is so deliberately opaque that it seems to be daring you to mentally check out at every non-turn and un-twist."

"Amy Seimetz wrote and shot her film long before the Covid-19 pandemic. But the parallels are undeniably eerie."

"A horror movie which reduces its central fear to the most fundamental form of existential dread."

"Confirms Seimetz as a strong directorial voice unafraid to travel through the depths of the soul."

"A wholly unpredictable rollercoaster that wickedly refuses to conform."

"It's an eerie essay in creeping dread and collective hysteria, about the fear of something awful just outside your field of vision."

"Unnerving and compelling in equal measure."

"Takes a preposterous premise - if one that stares us in the face every day - and keeps on the right, eerie side of dramatising it."

"A well-crafted, beautifully acted, minimalist gem for our times."

"Coloured lights, unidentifiable soundscapes, a heavy pace, and the never-ending strains of the Requiem cast a spell of existential dread."

"Few pandemic movies can match the hypnotic power of She Dies Tomorrow."

"She Dies Tomorrow is one of the scariest movies I've seen in a long time."

"A textured mood piece, full of existential dread, that confounds as much as it mesmerises."

"A vivid but vaporous portrait of collective unease that feels uncannily of this moment."

"Dazed but far from confused, She Dies Tomorrow tugs at you, nagging to be viewed more than once."

"The movie's messy humanity meets its existential panic and the story takes hold, finding strange resonance and even a kind of absurdist comedy in its end times."

"Feels as honed and intentional as it is elaborate, and as personal, even autobiographical, as it is speculative and somewhat removed."

"Seimetz films this coldly ghoulish and derisive fable with quiet intensity and rage at the way of the world."

"There is a rare, unrefined quality to Seimetz's film - a personal work of art that feels deeply honest throughout."

"Potent and pointed, whether it's psychodrama or anxiety-fuelled allegory."

"An emotionally vulnerable piece of work."

"Perhaps as a result of her attempting to avoid all matter of clichés, not just of genre, Amy Seimetz revels in vagueness."

"Amy Seimetz plays by her own rules like this is the last film she’ll ever make (it won’t be, no shot). She Dies Tomorrow ponders self-fulfillment with agency and riveting execution."

"She Dies Tomorrow is both cheeky and disconcerting — and unlike life, it ends right when it should."

"Seimetz has conjured a beguiling narrative so tapped into the current worldwide panic that it might have been made in its aftermath."

"A daring drama that has incredibly powerful resonance in the quarantine this country now finds itself under."