Guillermo Del Toro's 'Frankenstein': The Reviews Are In - Find Out What Critics Are Saying!

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is hitting theaters on Friday (October 17)!

The film stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth and Felix Kammerer, with Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz.

The movie marks the latest film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Critics have been weighing in with their thoughts on the movie. What do they think of the film so far?

Keep reading to find out more…

Frankenstein currently has an 82% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

AV Club gave it a B, writing: “Del Toro’s love for the grotesque and the abject is sincere and passionate, and there are scenes in Frankenstein that play like thesis statements for the director’s entire career.”

Slant gives it 2.5 out of 4 stars, writing: “As the perspective of Frankenstein shifts to that of the creature cast out by its maker, del Toro’s concerns evolve from the cerebral to the emotional.”

TIME says: “Alexandre Desplat’s score, swelling at the precise moments when we might like to be left alone with our feelings, often feels intrusive. The grand scale of this Frankenstein is unavoidable; what it’s lacking is intimacy.”

Time Out gave it 4 out of 5 stars, writing: “Del Toro throws everything he can at the screen. Frankenstein is loud, bombastic, sublime and silly. This is a universe in which towers totter above precipices, cellars drip hollowly and women wear impossible dresses in the snow.”

Vulture says: “Whatever its flaws, the director has filled Frankenstein with seemingly everything he loves, and it reflects his obsessions. It feels like the work of a true madman.”

The director recently addressed whether the movie is a metaphor for AI.