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- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: X is a true slasher I enjoyed very much. Ti West’s homage to the ‘70s grindhouse era of film gets the job done by successfully being gory, sexy, and genuinely tense.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Ti West’s 1979 set homage is simply the best of its kind since Rob Zombie’s “The Devil’s Rejects.” “X” is the most fun I’ve had at the movies so far this year.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: It starts off like a usual horror movie about a group of youngsters going somewhere remote and being picked off, but it’s so much more than that, and without trying too hard to be clever at the same time.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The production evokes an era so perfectly that it feels as if they were made in 1979. This is an arty slasher film.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Throw “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” “The Visit,” “Debbie Does Dallas,” “Boogie Nights” and, of all things, Michael Haneke’s “Amour” into the hopper, and out comes writer-director Ti West’s tonally singular “X.”
- Harrison Martin @ Flixfrog
- Excerpt: The 2nd Annual JanuScary Special continues with X! An ode to the raunchy slasher films of the 80s that manages to exceed preconceived expectations and deliver a unique take on the genre!
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I can give X the benefit of the doubt [with hindsight], accepting it as an entrypoint into a much larger world regardless of how incomplete it ultimately feels on its own.
- [New] | C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: With X, West distills the historical reading of slasher films as unconsciously expressing conservative values—the logic that people, especially young people, in slasher films who do drugs and have sex outside of marriage are the ones who die—into a slasher that touches on a number of interconnected social, sexual, and political themes resonant in the late 1970s and today.
- Ed Travis @ Cinapse
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
