Bones and All

Jeffrey Rex Bertelsen of I'm Jeffrey Rex

2022-11-28

Transfixing and sometimes startling, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All is a genre-bending coming-of-age road romance film with pinches of horror and gore that, to me, is all about rejection, abandonment, loneliness, and the need to feel seen. Read more

William Eguizabal of FilmSnobReviews

2023-02-19

It’ll fly under the radar, which is a surprise for a Guadignino picture but it deserves praise for stellar acting, deft direction and a unique spin on a few well wrought genres. Read more

Eric Hillis of The Movie Waffler

2022-11-24

Arseni Khachaturan's naturalistic cinematography and Guadagnino's refusal to indulge in showy visuals greatly add to the gritty texture of Bones and All. Read more

Hope Madden of Maddwolf

2022-11-22

Bones and All is a tough one to categorize. I suppose it’s a horror film, a romance, and a road picture – not three labels you often find on the same movie. In Guadagnino’s hands, it’s more than that, though. He embraces the strength of the solid YA theme that you have to be who you are, no matter how ugly the world may tell you that is. Read more

Filipe Freitas of Always Good Movies

2022-12-19

This horror doesn’t bite to the bone and should only work for those willing to accept the tenets of Guadagnino’s doomed cannibalism and dark romance. In my eyes, the ultimate success of this experience comes from Rylance’s creepy performance, and not so much from the cannibal teens. Read more

Bob Mann of One Mann's Movies

2022-11-30

A disappointment. I saw this as the second in a double bill with Glass Onion, so perhaps my adrenaline from that film influenced my enjoyment of this one. Or maybe its just that Luca Guadagnino and I just don’t get on? Read more