where Argento's film feels lurid and vaguely disreputable, Guadagnino's is high art, a two and-a-half-hour wallow in the primal recesses of the human psyche that's alternately calculatedly subdued and completely batshit crazy
Suspiria is a gorgeous, hideous, uncompromising film, and while it seeks to do many things, settling our minds about the brutality of the past and human nature is not one of them
Luca Guadagnino, who may be a genius of sorts, has reimagined Suspiria. But it isn't a work of genius; this new Suspiria is bland, grisly, boring and silly. There is nothing poetic or erotic about it
Luca Guadagnino has made an ambitious homage, but it doesn’t really benefit from its more intellectualized gaze, instead draining the stomach-churning thrills of great horror
it's so good, it's scary; Almost transgressively, Guadagnino has deprioritized the shocks, even the fear. But in their place, he's pumped up the exoticism and crafted a movie you can get lost in, which is the ultimate tribute
"Suspiria" is a film of rare and unfettered madness, and it leaves behind a scalding message that's written in pain and blood: The future will be a nightmare if we can't take responsibility for the past
by Stephanie Zacharek [Time Magazine ]
by Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York ]
