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A girl with unusual powers escapes from a mental asylum and tries to make it on her own in New Orleans.
Leave your thoughts about Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon.
| The Film StageDavid KatzThis is a midnight movie/B-movie-type work that knows exactly what it is––there’s no pretensions of “elevated horror” here. Mona Lisa is smart, politically aware, and reaffirms a bit of faith in Amirpour’s talent. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMona Lisa and the Blood Moon plays like a graphic novel come to life. Everything has a heightened sense of color, and the soundtrack pulses with banger tunes and wall-rattling EDM. |
| RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyA sleazy and neon-soaked ride that splits the difference between a crafty caper and a guilty pleasure, “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon” is the kind of cheeky flick you can’t help but surrender to. |
| Paste MagazineKathy Michelle ChaconWith Mona Lisa, Amirpour officially graduates from her position as an “up-and-coming” voice to a full-fledged genre auteur. However you title her, her hyper-stylized explorations of gender-based violence, punky female protagonists and obvious love for her craft make her one to keep watching. |
| Time OutPhil de SemlyenAmirpour’s career to date offers a triptych of stories of women navigating men’s worlds, and needing all their nous and resources to survive in them – and this is her most straight-up enjoyable survivor tale yet. It’s a feminist parable that may not linger as long as in the mind as her more provocative debut, but it’s irresistible fun in the moment. |
| The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMona Lisa and the Blood Moon solidifies Amirpour’s reputation as a master of subversion. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanMona Lisa and the Blood Moon is a lark, a contradiction — a lurid, violent, caught-in-the-gutter movie that’s also a nimble and knowing tall tale for adults. |
| The A.V. ClubLuke Y. ThompsonIt’s less a story of the supernatural than one about a party on the wrong side of town, with hints of danger, interesting strangers to meet, and an overall cool vibe that even lingers the morning after. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMona Lisa’s story is at first bizarre, and then tense, and then genuinely moving as the escapee figures out what she actually wants from the outside world. |
| Screen RantNadir SamaraMona Lisa and The Blood Moon is a tightrope of horror, revenge, and feminism set to awesome music. |
