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| ConsequenceMarcus ShorterThe Blackening is tense, funny, and thoughtful. It’s a miracle when any movie expertly hits that hat trick but even more so when it does it with this much confidence. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperWith the ensemble cast doing superb work, The Blackening is a horror comedy that packs a serious punch. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Sarah-Tai BlackEven if its cultural and artistic stakes remain relatively low in the grand scheme of things, The Blackening – whose enjoyment absolutely lies in the fact that it both knows exactly the confines it’s working within and doesn’t take itself too seriously – is still a hell of a good time. |
| RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonThe Blackening is an unapologetically Black comedy through and through. It maintains its wit and bite to the very end, boastfully serving audiences a hilarious film we didn’t know we needed. |
| The New York TimesLisa KennedyThe Blackening comes with a horror movie’s requisite skittish and stalking camerawork, its creaks and breath-holding hushes, its gore and payback. But it is the friends’ flee, fight, freeze — or throw under the bus — banter that makes the film provocative fun. |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNot every bit lands and the social commentary is not always exactly incisive. Sometimes it is, though. When a character says they should call the police and everyone breaks out into simultaneous guffaws, the point is made — fittingly, with laughter. |
| The GuardianAndrew LawrenceAs a horror The Blackening isn’t the scariest. But that’s not the point of this film – a Fubu satire smack in the sweet spot between Get Out and Scary Movie. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt’s a comedy with a lot of very big laughs. |
| Paste MagazineMatt DonatoIt’s better as a comedy than as a wickedly sharpened thriller, making The Blackening one of those surefire “see it with a crowd” pleasers. |
| IndieWireRafael MotamayorMore importantly, the film specifically examines Blackness through the lens of whiteness, making a white man the enemy and showing how an outside force wreaks havoc among the closed group. The film jokes about Black suffering, but this is far from trauma porn. It’s a truly Black horror comedy. |
