
In Minnesota in the 1990s, a man is arrested and accused of having abused his daughter. Although he doesn't remember anything from the event, he pleads guilty. With the help of a psychologist, he'll relive those moments. Meanwhile, the local media hints the possibility that everything could have been a satanic cult's doing.... (Full plot summary below)
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In Minnesota in the 1990s, a man is arrested and accused of having abused his daughter. Although he doesn't remember anything from the event, he pleads guilty. With the help of a psychologist, he'll relive those moments. Meanwhile, the local media hints the possibility that everything could have been a satanic cult's doing.
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| New York TimesGlenn KennyThe movie is ultimately a tepid and frustrating experience. |
| TheFrightFile.comDustin PutmanDeriving inspiration from a certain famed Arthur Miller play and reframing it for the era of rampant, media-invoked Satanic Panic fears, "Regression" provocatively blankets its elegiac mystery in a malignant pall of diabolical foreboding. |
| Entertainment WeeklyC. Molly SmithWhile Regression does, for the most part, deliver simmering suspense — and with Watson and Thewlis together, it’s fun (and weird) to see a mini-Harry Potter reunion — the script often falls flat, and the film sometimes leans too heavily on the score to telegraph an ominous tone. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJonathan HollandThis carefully-crafted tale of collective psychosis, satanic ritual abuse and pseudo-science, starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson, is satisfying as a compact, if over-cautious, horror-tinged psychological thriller. But it's most interesting beneath its polished, doomy surface, where complex concerns about the cultural origins of our fears are skillfully explored. |
| ChrisStuckmann.comChris StuckmannRegression is eerily old-fashioned, a mystery more concerned with abject paranoia than blood and guts. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeBy no means the disaster (at least artistically) it's been painted as, this is an unusual horror movie -- one that critiques and subverts its own genre. |
| Today's Zaman (Turkey)Emine YildirimFans of the genre are in for a stylish film, if not a classic. |
| The Ooh TrayEd WhitfieldThe movie exudes a certain seriousness which its screenplay manifestly can't support. |
| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeStraddles the line between psychological suspense and supernatural horror. |
| New York Magazine/VultureBilge EbiriPerhaps a story like this needed to be a drama. Or maybe, with its constant, almost comical shifting of blame, a dark satire. Instead, it’s wound up as the worst of all possible alternatives: a disposable genre movie that cannot scare, convince, or enlighten. |