David Griffiths Subculture Entertainment Mar 10, 2025 4/5

Raw is one of those horror films that really sticks with you. Not because it plants a horrific imprint on your brain but because it is a genre film with a real arthouse feel that further enhances the film.

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Diana Tuova Spotlight on Film Aug 2, 2024 4/5

A staggering film debut with "unflinching" gore and disturbing atmosphere, reviving the best of what became known as the New French Extremity movement.

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Marshall Shaffer Vague Visages Dec 6, 2023

These crashes back into a messy reality invoke how the rise and fall of a plot arc represents a merely synthetic change. Actual transformation takes more than just giving into a gut response spurred by familial intervention.

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Abby Monteil them. Oct 27, 2022

In juxtaposing her main character’s sexual awakening with her burgeoning cannibalism, director Julie Durconeau challenges the often fraught relationship between female violence and sexuality in horror.

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Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Feb 12, 2022 4/4

Full of visceral horror and a thoughtful meditation on the various hungers of youth, Raw is a blazingly original and confidently crafted debut.

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Cody Corrall Chicago Reader Oct 8, 2021

Raw is one of few films in the "female cannibal" canon, one that flips the power dynamic of women in horror so they are in control, rather than afraid of, their own carnal desires.

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Kip Mooney College Movie Review Aug 25, 2021 B+

Terrifying and unsettling.

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Ray Lobo Film Threat Aug 1, 2021 8/10

[The] straightforward plot serves as a perfect canvas for the varied and complex themes explored by Ducournau.

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Dustin Chang Floating World Jul 25, 2021

Mixing not so subtle metaphors of cannibal and carnal, Ducournau charges ahead like a juggernaut, one gross incidents after another with the similar energy that is usually reserved for macho directors (Gaspar Nöe comes to mind).

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Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Jul 21, 2021 3.5/5

A rich coming-of-age tale that swaps in cannibalism for puberty, Raw is a powerful debut for Julia Ducournau.

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Rob Aldam Backseat Mafia Apr 26, 2021

A sizzlingly sexy and dazzlingly stylish cannibalistic tale which gives the viewer plenty to chew on.

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Dan Stubbs NME (New Musical Express) Apr 23, 2021 5/5

Raw dares you to keep looking through its stomach-churning, bum-squirming set pieces...

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Chris Ward Flickering Myth Apr 22, 2021

Raw is quite simply a remarkable contemporary horror movie with bite.

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Dahlia Balcazar Bitch Media Feb 17, 2021

Julia Ducournau's feature film debut Raw joins the canon with the French teen-cannibal, coming-of-age story I didn't know I was waiting for.

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Allen Almachar The MacGuffin Jul 11, 2020 B-

It's a nice piece of steak that's undercooked

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Brent McKnight The Last Thing I See Jul 2, 2020 A

Layered and symbolic, measured and wild, and provocative as hell, Raw is a remarkable movie in a vacuum; it's a damn marvel considering it's a debut.

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Adrian Martin Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jun 26, 2020

Raw jumps from body issues to family issues to social issues, and then does the full circle all over again. Overrated but intriguing.

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Dan Scully Cinema76 Apr 15, 2020

It's easily one of the most disgusting films I've ever seen, but it's also the most thematically rich cannibal film you're apt to find.

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Jim Ross TAKE ONE Magazine Feb 13, 2020

RAW is vibrant, violent and vivaciously grotesque.

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Ashlee Blackwell Graveyard Shift Sisters Feb 11, 2020

Raw is both endearing and brutal with Ducourau's masterful character development and visceral pleasures.

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