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| The PlaylistNed BoothIt’s rare for a film to so boldly depict shamanic experience as Nocebo does here, where ritual and sacrifice open up relations with enigmatic and powerful forces in unseen realms. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakGreen and Fonacier are both fantastic within this evolving dynamic, their inevitable end a mutually brutal sacrifice meant to close a broken loop rather than continue some damaging cycle. Their characters are so complex that their best moments are those subtle shimmers revealing true natures beneath old façades. |
| Screen DailyNikki BaughanNocebo combines traditional Filipino folklore with modern concerns about cultural exploitation, and while it is prone to moments of melodramatic excess is still another intriguing work from one of Ireland’s most interesting talents. |
| The A.V. ClubLuke Y. ThompsonThe “mystery” elements simply aren’t mysterious. Yet without them, the sparse moments of gore and icky bugs aren’t quite enough to pad things out. |
| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsWith Nocebo, Finnegan and his collaborators have put their finger on something dark and disturbing. Too bad it’s never as upsetting as it is suggestive. |
| The New York TimesJason ZinomanThis movie has plenty going for it: excellent actors (Fonacier has a knack for coiled tension), stylish camerawork by the director Lorcan Finnegan and a point to make about economic exploitation. What’s missing is any sense of surprise. |
| User ReviewMrJPrimeI mean the ending is obvious 15 minutes in. Bad white lady must have hurt sweet brown girl. Sweet brown girl needs revenge. That being said. Despite the heavy handed "the message" the movie is pretty good. Good acting and some kind of wild concepts I don't think I've seen before. Good payoff. Definitely worth a watch. |
| User ReviewJLuis_001The appeal of its plot cannot be denied. The sense of uneasiness plays a very important role in the atmosphere of discomfort that prevails throughout most of the film and is one of the main elements that draws you into the story. I do think that the social commentary and the message get lost a bit by the decision to go for a more suspenseful route, focusing on keeping Eva Green's character in a constant state of confusion long before the plot begins to reveal its cards, so you can't help but feel that the main point of the story is slightly weak, especially because the plot fails to make you feel either empathy or contempt for the two characters around whom everything revolves, because the revenge is undoubtedly collected, but it is a revenge that left me with a feeling of emptiness. |
