Anya Couture Geek Vibes Nation Jul 26, 2025 9.5/10

Anita Rocha da Silveira’s second feature film Medusa is a brutal masterwork that uniquely uses genre pastiche, tying the titular Gorgon’s mythos into its aesthetic in an impressive way.

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Hector A. Gonzalez The Movie Buff Sep 8, 2024 C+

Anita Rocha da Silveira’s “Medusa” does brim with social commentary and reverence of several important topics and transgressions; its best moments are the fine-drawn subtle moments, albeit the last act doesn’t have significant motion.

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William Stottor Loud and Clear Reviews Aug 13, 2024 4/5

Religious fanaticism and oppressive masculinity hang heavy over Anita Rocha da Silveira’s visually resplendent and thematically compelling Medusa.

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Nuha Hassan Nuha Hassan (Medium) Sep 8, 2023

It’s the strength between women that binds them together and finds themselves running through the streets expressing their sexual freedom, expression, and feminist rage.

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David Parkinson Radio Times Jul 21, 2023 3/5

[Anita Rocha] da Silveira embarks upon surreal flights of fancy that invoke the 1960s Cinema Novo movement.

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Vicky Lawrence Starburst Jul 19, 2023 4/5

It has everything you want in a film, a twisty plot, a great soundtrack that serves the finest synth-wave, feminine rage, and it’s shot beautifully. This is a must-watch for anyone interested in the monstrous feminine.

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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Jul 18, 2023 3.5/5

Pulsing with darkly intense energy, this Brazilian thriller has a fantastical sensibility that's dreamlike. Beautifully shot to wash the night in vivid colour, the inventive storytelling style challenges the viewer to lean in closer.

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Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK) Jul 18, 2023 3/5

Its humid, colourful intensity updates the mood of 1977’s Suspiria and other Dario Argento films.

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Mark Kermode Observer (UK) Jul 16, 2023 4/5

A genre film with something to say, and a unique voice with which to say it.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Jul 14, 2023 2/5

... The satire becomes entirely toothless and badly muddled by magic realism, and the writer-director Anita Rocha da Silveira’s initial target — Brazil’s far-right movement — drifts into the distance.

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Marina Ashioti Little White Lies Jul 12, 2023 3/5

Albeit lacking in subtlety, this is a stylish film that revels in its ardent political commentary.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Jul 10, 2023 3/5

It’s flawed and all over the place in conventional script terms, but there’s real interest in this freaky, peculiar, interestingly directed psychodrama satire...

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Bill Bria Vague Visages Jun 6, 2023

Ultimately, Medusa is so overstuffed that it can’t find a way to tie its myriad conflicting tones together, bringing down a movie that begins with so much potential.

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Alessandra Rangel InSession Film Mar 8, 2023

Brazilian filmmaker Anita Rocha Da Silveira presents an incendiary provocation on patriarchy with Medusa, a film that is so clear and loud on its criticism of Brazilian society that it is impossible to remain impassive to its message.

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Douglas Davidson Elements of Madness Dec 13, 2022 4.5/5

By all accounts, "Medusa" should be a tonal mess, yet it compels its audience to lean in, listen, and contemplate the seething rage that permeates its every frame.

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Rene Sanchez Cine Sin Fronteras Oct 5, 2022 3/4

A visually striking and timely fable about the horrors of an oppressive society. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Jenny Nulf Austin Chronicle Sep 27, 2022 2.5/5

What begins as a punchy, feminine-biting satire becomes fuzzy after the first act. It’s an admirable effort, but an overstuffed, demanding one as well.

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Yasmin Kleinbart The Young Folks Sep 1, 2022 8/10

Medusa shines when it focuses on the repression of women’s feelings. While on the surface, it looks like these girls enjoy spreading the word of God, deep down, there’s anger bubbling inside of them.

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Andrea Thompson Wealth of Geeks Aug 25, 2022 7/10

It’s a precarious balance to hold complicit women accountable while retaining sympathy for them. Anita Rocha da Silveira never loses sight of either goal, even if it comes somewhat at the expense of the plot...

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Andrea Chase Killer Movie Reviews Aug 24, 2022 4/5

Anger unleashed with wild abandon. A heart-stopping comedy that is as arch as it is passionate, as ready to embrace absurdity as pathos.

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