Opus is receiving blended evaluations out of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Opus is a brand new A24 horror film that’s written and directed by Mark Anthony Green, with this being his function movie directorial debut. Releasing in theaters this coming March, the film stars Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich.
“A younger author (Ayo Edebiri) is invited to the distant compound of a legendary pop star (John Malkovich) who mysteriously disappeared thirty years in the past,” the synopsis for the film reads. “Surrounded by the star’s cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself in the course of his twisted plan.”
What are critics saying about A24’s Opus?
IndieWire’s Chase Hutchinson gave the movie a C- grade. Whereas Hutchinson praised Edebiri and Malkovich’s efficiency, additionally they mentioned that it’s a “boring and baffling horror film that finally ends up turning into the very factor it’s supposedly so involved about: A useless and vapid pop spectacle that’s totally missing in substance.”
“There isn’t a single body that manages to instill a long-lasting diploma of concern, and the movie is shot and edited with a determined freneticism that appears decided to masks its underlying lifelessness,” Hutchinson additionally wrote.
Deadline’s Glenn Garner was extra constructive concerning the movie, regardless of saying that it “may have ended 20 minutes sooner than it does.”
Garner wrote, “With out hitting them over the top, the movie is sprinkled with what seems to be refined nods to Midsommar, Silence of the Lambs and different horror classics from through the years. Though there are additionally some inevitable comparisons to be made to The Menu, that ought to come as no shock for the reason that ‘eat the wealthy’ sub-genre has loads of overlap with the ‘drink the Kool-Help’ camp, each of that are more and more related in 2025.”
JoBlo’s Chris Bumbray, in the meantime, mentioned the primary hour of Opus “works nicely as a form of satire on fashionable leisure journalists and their relationships with the entertainers they write about,” whereas it then goes “off the rails when the horror facet kicks in.”
Opus can be launched in United States theaters on March 14, 2025.