Gerald's Game: reviews

What the critics say average 8.7 from 5 outlets

• 10 The PlaylistKristy Puchko "From start to finish, Gugino is phenomenal, riveting, and fearless. This is the role her fans have been waiting for." Read
• 9.0 VarietyJoe Leydon "Credit cinematographer Michael Fimognari and production designer Patrick M. Sullivan Jr. for enhancing the claustrophobic feel of scenes inside the lake-house bedroom." Read
• 8.3 IndiewireEric Kohn "So when the movie arrives at a phenomenal, breakneck climax, and then keeps going with a totally implausible twist, it?s adhering to the unwritten rule: No matter who?s driving, everyone must bow to the King." Read
• 8.3 The A.V. ClubKatie Rife "Flanagan?s film, and Gugino?s performance in particular, addresses those themes in bold, cathartic ways that allow Jessie to finally become the heroine of her own story after a lifetime of sexual and emotional abuse" Read
• 8.1 The VergeTasha Robinson "King?s novel takes place primarily in the head of a woman who?s talking to herself as she gradually loses her mind, and the actual action largely consists of that woman lying in a bed. It isn?t a physically dynamic scenario, and it?s hard to see how to open up a story that?s so staid and limited. [...] That makes it all the more fascinating that writer-director Mike Flanagan [...] have turned Gerald's Game into one of the most compelling, memorable Stephen King adaptations to date." Read