Frailty: Critic Reviews

86%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

73%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

« previous
1
2
next »
«
»

Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

63

Paxton wins quiet victories here as both star and helmer.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

40

Violent and ultimately uneven and unsatisfying.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Todd Gilchrist IGN Movies

Bill Paxton, longtime bit-player and significantly underrated character actor, makes his directorial debut with Frailty, a joyless tale of one family's psychotic cycle of violence.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Lucius Gore ESplatter

100

The film's just about perfect.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

40

Feels like Sling Blade rewritten at a crawl by Stephen King.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine)

34

An overpraised thriller that's really as superficial as a bruise.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Andrea Chase Killer Movie Reviews

80

The intricate plotting . . . reveals everything and yet, using the audiences preconceived notions, makes each fact a surprise and each fiction a shock.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Brian Mckay eFilmCritic.com

20

So grim, dim, and formulaic, that there is no room for any kind of visceral connection or genuine suspense.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Harry Guerin RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

60

This looks - and chills - like the start of a very promising new career for Paxton.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Karina Montgomery Cinerina

30

Some good ideas went into the meat grinder, but what came out was largely uninteresting absurdist mush.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

67

'Frailty" starts out like a typical Bible killer story, but it turns out to be significantly different (and better) than most films with this theme.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Clint Morris Mediasharx

80

A hot-acid concoction of thrills, spills, trepidation, and one of the most novel stories of recent times.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Christopher Tookey Daily Mail [UK]

This is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Rocchi Netflix

80

Actor Bill Paxton's directorial debut is a stark horror film full of surprises -- and genuine scares.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan

An intriguing film about an unsavory topic.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Ian Waldron-Mantgani UK Critic

100

This film is a thinking outside of the box, an answer to viewers who think we can convince ourselves of what not to expect.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

42

It's all surface psychodramatics.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jason Clark Matinee Magazine

This is a horror picture for individuals who only like their frills to stay firmly on the surface
Full Review » 10 years ago
Chuck Wilson L.A. Weekly

With an admirably dark first script by Brent Hanley, Paxton, making his directorial feature debut, does strong, measured work.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Brent Simon Entertainment Today

59

A twisty, moody slice of Southern Gothic...
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jason Best BBC

80

Gripping, thought-provoking and disturbing.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

A garish, delightfully bizarre horror film with the daring to address Western institutional-fascism.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

59

...reminiscent ... in its literal-mindedness, of Michael Tolkin's pitiless The Rapture and, in its theme, of Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Marshall Fine Journal News (Westchester, NY)

67

A sometimes long but always eerie ride, thanks to the conviction of Paxton's performance as a God-fearing man with murder on his mind.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jeffrey Chen Window to the Movies

40

[God] ought to sue Bill Paxton for defamation of character.
Full Review » 10 years ago