80
The Limehouse Golem may be hokum, but it’s glorious hokum that brings something fresh to the stale old cadaver of Victorian melodrama.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
It feels at once crammed and sketchy, riddled with flashbacks and framing devices, and woefully light on frights.
50
Initially colorful, the script’s lurid and overripe dialogue eventually grinds the film to a halt.
50
Screen International by Fionnuala Halligan
Director Juan Carlos Medina (Insensible/Painless) fails to muster Golem’s many moving parts, and tension leaks from the film like the blood from one of its many savaged corpses.
75
The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
The script carries us through without much effort, its expertly paced discoveries keeping us enthralled.
40
A great cast is let down by a script that fails to provide a compelling mystery to solve. Never mind as a big-screen production, this would be disappointing as a BBC mini-series.
80
The Guardian by Jordan Hoffman
There are a lot of twists and turns in the plot, but not all of them are satisfying. What does work are the performances, specifically Cooke and the richly sympathetic character she creates.
60
Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
A perfectly watchable if overtly theatrical whodunit.
80
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It’s an entertainingly bizarre, lurid nightmare with a playfully literary flavour, very Ackroydian, but with hints of Angela Carter and a bit of William Blake.
63
"Limehouse” is more a fascinating world to be immersed in than a dazzling telling of a morbid tale.