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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 85The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerKnowing just how much to say aloud and how much to suggest through visual and aural means, this superb Irish fable feels at once modern and ancient, and hums with mystery and malice.
- 80The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeThe Irish TimesDonald ClarkeAll You Need Is Death, craggy and rough-edged, may be in constant conversation with the distant past, but it also puts up signposts to the future for Irish horror cinema. It’s about time somebody found a name for this artistic movement (if it is yet that).
- 75Original-CinThom ErnstOriginal-CinThom ErnstAll You Need is Death is a film to experience. It requires some work from the audience. An impassive viewer is unlikely to piece together the fragments that make a cohesive whole. This is a film to be discovered, made by a director worth discovering.
- 74Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpPaste MagazineAndrew CrumpThe power of Fouéré’s performance echoes across the film to its gruesome, tragic ending – further supporting evidence of the past’s grip strength on people of any generation.
- 70Little White LiesDavid JenkinsLittle White LiesDavid JenkinsThis is a grimly refreshing and confident toe-dip into the world of horror, and we hope Duane choses to revisit this atmospherically murky pool.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is a good idea and there are good moments in the film, especially at the very beginning when Anna and Aleks have a bizarre encounter with the old woman herself, Rita Concannon, strikingly played by Olwen Fouéré. But then things begin to slide. There are however some resonant ideas here.