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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayCitadel is plenty scary: a bare-bones man-against-his-worst-fears white knuckler, shot through deep, menacing shadows.
- 75Slant MagazineSlant MagazineCitadel is stripped down and no-nonsense, fixating on Tommy's emotional and psychological struggles with an intensity that's harrowing.
- 75Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanI think Foy simply wants to deliver well-gauged terror and make a few points about personal responsibility and the need to overcome our fears. That he does quite well.
- 70VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonWriter-director Ciaran Foy skillfully taps into primal fears and urban paranoia to keep his audience consistently unsettled in Citadel, an intensely suspenseful horror-thriller.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThe more that fright-flick conventions take over, the more the movie's recognizable and resonant human fears are dulled.
- 60The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThis spare first feature from the Irish filmmaker Ciaran Foy (drawing on his own experiences) has an atavistic pulse, evoking a decaying society where elevators fail and bus drivers cower behind mesh grills.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA dispiriting horror cheapie whose monsters-in-the-projects premise plays out like an anti-welfare parable.
- The feature debut from Irish writer-director Ciarán Foy, Citadel attempts to transform mundane anxieties into the stuff of a horror film. But the initial tension of the premise dissipates like a slow leak.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenNo longer content with simple conservatism, this horror is downright totalitarian.
- 42The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorCitadel, which won the Midnight award at the fest, further explores the fears and anxieties of urban Britain (and Ireland), and the results are sometimes scary, sometimes silly, and always politically questionable.