The Prodigy's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
Nicholas McCarthy's chiller doesn't ever hide its big, weird idea for a possession story, but it still goes in some unexpected (and gruesome) directions.
Fotogramas
The best: the hypnosis session turns out in a spooky situation raised to the cube. The worst: the film doesn't frees itself of the usual points of the genre.
Cinemanía
Just as Chucky looked sideways at capitalism, Miles is the nod of the genre in its most mainstream version towards motherhood, whose reinterpretation is so present in this time.
El Periódico
Looks like 'The Prodigy' has succumbed towards a more mainstream approach. It's the same formula, the same parameters of the conventions of horror films
El Mundo
+ It's more based on melodrama and intrigue than horror. - The abuse of scary gazes of the child in order to show his possession.
The Hollywood Reporter
Struggling throughout with issues of structure and pacing, Nicholas McCarthy?s horror feature threatens to debase standards for the genre.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote