Festooned with beads and fabrics, Horse Girl is visually inventive and ultimately succeeds on the grounds of Alison Brie's unwavering and longtail commitment to playing more than just the pretty girl.

Full Review | Sep 14, 2021

A career-best performance from Alison Brie and a complex, thoughtful approach to mental illness.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 5, 2021

Amongst the metaphor and pathos, it's Brie's performance that stands out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2020

Everything produced by the Duplass Brothers is hollow and superficial and cutesy. Their examinations of the bourgeoisie lack depth and flatter their audience...

Full Review | Sep 16, 2020

This movie is definitely not about horses. If you want to watch a conspiracy-theory movie with sci-fi gimmicks that have been done much better in other films, then feel free to waste about 104 minutes of your time to watch Horse Girl.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2020

There is a lot going on in Horse Girl (2020), and it very nearly manages to pull it off.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 8, 2020

A luminous and colorful indie with surprising amounts of realism. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2020

By the end, viewers have whiplash and a distinct sensation that the script needed several more drafts, but they aren't bored.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2020

Horse Girl unfolds like a fever dream, appropriately. A twisting narrative built upon strong performances. The end is far from satisfying, but that's part of its charm.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2020

Brie's performance is powerful and the film's editing does a superb job of mixing Sarah's obscured perception with reality, succeeding in offering an unsettling look into the mind of someone who suffers from a severe mental illness.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2020

An ambitious, odd project, and one that sticks stubbornly in the mind's eye.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2020

The film looks like it's shipwrecked. Adrift. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Feb 24, 2020

The conclusion is meaningfully painful and actually felt like an invitation to revisit the film, a privilege afforded to streaming flicks that is too rarely exploited.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 21, 2020

An incongruous, engaging ride, Horse Girl doesn't hit all the marks, and some audiences will become deterred, but Brie's tour de force performance is truly the base and it's one worth jumping off from.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2020

Mental illness as the engine for a thriller is a cultural conceit whose days are numbered, but, as a last gasp, there's no denying this entry is compelling and evocative.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2020

Young woman battles mental illness; sex/nudity, language.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2020

The second half of "Horse Girl" loses rhythm and tension, finding the writing irritatingly light on detail when it comes time to submerge the lead character in complete insanity.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Feb 13, 2020

Brie is rawly convincing as a troubled woman for whom the sides of reality have become too slippery, transformed into the heroine of a private sci-fi melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2020

The character writing truly is Horse Girl's greatest strength, what makes it notable instead of a dime-a-dozen straight-to-streaming movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2020

Horse Girl is a strange movie ... It might not always make sense, but it still works; it's the kind of movie that'll leave you scratching your head ... in a (mostly) good way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2020