Newcomer Trey Edward Shults writes and directs his own immediate family in this dizzying, horrifying, and heartbreaking portrait of addiction and its results of familial turmoil.

Full Review | Jun 18, 2024

Shults has created something special here. This story of how addiction affects both the addict and their family will hit home to those who have experience with this, and will be an eye-opening experience for those who don't.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2021

I feel like I became a different human being while watching it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

...an often hypnotically ambitious debut feature...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 1, 2019

With Krisha, Shults shows that he knows how to get people's attention-figuring out what to do with it is another story altogether.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | May 22, 2019

KRISHA is a well-deserved achievement for a project that hits close to anybody, but the flair of experimentation from Schults' camera keeps the tension at a fever pitch.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 10, 2018

The film practically vibrates with a nervous energy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 7, 2018

Shults can't quite help himself from over-directing every moment. He's seemingly lived this subject matter, even casting himself as Krisha's long tormented son. But being this close to the material has swayed his film into the realm of misery porn.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2018

Krisha comes from real pain, a wound that is thoroughly opened up on screen. I can't wait to see what Shults and his aunt do next.

Full Review | Aug 29, 2018

Krisha certainly is a difficult film to like or recommend in the traditional sense, but what writer-director Trey Edward Shults has birthed here is something that demands to be seen.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

Mimicking the one-track mind of addiction, this movie is about Krisha: her humanity, her fear, her actions and their consequences.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2017

It's one of the more challenging -- and perhaps rewarding -- film-going experiences of the year so far.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 30, 2016

If this isn't the first work of a major filmmaker I'll eat my review. And I'll film it for you on YouTube.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 27, 2016

Among the most engrossing 80-or-so minutes you'll see all year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2016

Tough to stomach, but incredible talent in front of and behind the camera.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2016

Krisha is a truly unique film, and one that I'll be thinking about for weeks.

Full Review | Dec 7, 2016

Are we watching the emergence of America's next great filmmaker?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2016

The tension is apparent from the off and this tightly wound and intimate drama delivers on both the intensity and complexity of a black sheep returning to the fold.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2016

A family Thanksgiving reunion starts with a flurry of "so good to see yous" and ends in expletive-laden recriminations in this brilliantly feel-bad debut from name-to-remember Trey Edward Shults.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2016

A big old family might gather under a single roof in Krisha, but the intriguing indie nonetheless steers clear of home-for-the-holidays formula -- it's more emotional-spiral suspense film than sentimental drama.

Full Review | Nov 29, 2016