A Cure for Wellness - Movie Reviews (2024)

Sheer peculiarity may earn A Cure for Wellness devoted enthusiasts, but those hoping for story logic or emotional involvement will feel unfulfilled.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 5, 2022

This movie is lush, cruel and stuffed to the brim with unforgettable images.

Full Review | Sep 10, 2021

Overstays its welcome and moves from 'fun creepy' to truly disturbing.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 28, 2021

Gore Verbinski has never met a fun scary idea that he couldn't just strangle dead

Full Review | Jul 6, 2021

Perhaps if this were played with a sense of how ridiculous it is, it may have been tolerable, but as it stands A Cure for Wellness is a Seatbelt Movie, a film so misguided I needed a seatbelt to prevent me from bolting from the theatre.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Like so much Verbinski, it's grotesque and overlong, casually indulgent in its weirdest aspects and a little overheated when it needs to be graceful. But it's creepy, incisive, gorgeous, nightmarishly imaginative, and a potent reminder...

Full Review | Dec 23, 2020

Some diehard Verbinski aficionados may be on board for the self-indulgence, but for general audiences... well, let's just say that it is about as appealing as the eels it places so prominently in center frame.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 24, 2020

A worthy genre weirdo wrapped in peculiar, often fascinating trappings.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 2, 2020

A Cure for Wellness is definitely not a film for everyone, but if you are a classic horror aficionado, like myself, you may want to find time to check it out.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2020

There's no denying that A Cure for Wellness is a visual feast... But what Verbinski gives us is a classic example of style over substance at an epic length.

Full Review | May 1, 2020

A Cure for Wellness is a breath of fresh (moldy) air.

Full Review | Mar 27, 2020

The film asks compelling questions about the sickness of this modern world. It's just a pity that it can't provide equally compelling answers.

Full Review | Feb 19, 2020

An overstuffed, head-scratching paranoid thriller with shades of horror and sci-fi thrown in for sometimes confounding measure.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 4, 2019

If only the writing measured up to the cinematography, the score, and the immense talent of its two leads.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2019

Random creepy images grow tiresome after 80 or so minutes. Unmercifully, A CURE FOR WELLNESS has another sixty minutes to go, without a coherent thread or satisfying payoff. Or any payoff, really.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5 | Apr 4, 2019

A Cure for Wellness is a utterly banal and ridiculous visual spectacle. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/10 | Mar 26, 2019

Verbinski's return to horror is a complete mess. With its impressive first half, A Cure for Wellness promises a lot, though in time it proves to be placebo with a ludicrous ending leaving no room for remedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2019

For a film that makes its enigmas so paramount, it's strange to see [A Cure For Wellness] treat its audience so disdainfully.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2019

Verbinski is not subtle with these themes, particularly the comparison of the hellish spa to the ruthless corporate world Lockhart craves to ascend in, but in his lead actor, he really manages to sell this and produce a smarter film for it.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 22, 2018

A movie with a mismatch of threads and motifs, but one that manages to hold them all together and create a satisfyingly creepy, and original, modern horror movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | Dec 21, 2018