Bones and All - Movie Reviews (2025)

Bones and All is an exceptional victory of cinema and is destined to become an instant coming-of-age classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 17, 2024

Combining tones and artistic choices that have no right to be together, yet dazzle in spite of this, Guadagnino has created something harrowing and heart-wrenching, but also spellbindingly gorgeous.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2024

Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino stays true to the themes of Camille DeAngelis’ book of the same name — and makes a convincing case to extend your love and sympathy to two forlorn teenagers stuck in a rickety car on the roads of ‘80s America.

Full Review | Jun 10, 2024

While unflinching in depicting consumption of people, Guadagnino humanizes the victims by using sequences of still shots of their belongings to reflect their lives. People are more than the moment that we cross their path

Full Review | Jun 8, 2024

There is a lot to chew on here, about people who feel disenfranchised, unloved and unwanted. The ending may disappoint, but it also ensures the film will have a life as an imperfect masterpiece, the best kind of cult film, after all.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2023

Guadagnino lights up every scene in the movie with breathtaking visuals that navigate the push and pull of the love story.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2023

Desire and danger are two sides of the same coin in Bones And All, a blood-soaked romance that juxtaposes the yearning for touch with the craving for flesh. It’s a cannibal love story that tugs at the heart, even as its characters go for the jugular.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2023

Bones and All is a compelling story that can be best enjoyed when consumed in its metaphorical state.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 8, 2023

Bones and All comes tantalizingly close to being an effective arterial-spray gothic romance, but it too often feels like an empty exercise in style.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2023

A fable that intertwines tenderness with the horrifying.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 25, 2023

At times “Bones and All” is heartbreaking and seductive, but even if you know going in that it’s about cannibalism, the movie is still wildly disgusting.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Bones and All is a deeply humanistic story of impossible love as two drifters search for their idea of home.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

A near perfect slice of life romantic road trip film involving two cannibals. Beautiful, horrific, creepy, but all at the same time poignant.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All is the story of two outsiders who are desperately trying to “be people” in a world that doesn’t seem to have room for them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2023

A road movie with a believable romance, disgusting horror, gorgeous visuals and impeccable score, Bones and All, a movie that shouldn't work, becomes one of the best of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 24, 2023

"Bones and All" uses the cannibal idea as a sign of inescapable difference, a metaphor for queerness in its most all-embracing form, and asks how we can lead fulfilling lives in a world that fears us

Full Review | Jun 6, 2023

doesn’t quite reach the twisted melodramatic heights to which Guadagnino clearly aspires, which makes Bones and All, like his Suspiria remake, more interesting as a concept than it is effective as a film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 27, 2023

Guadagnino has crafted something unexpectedly tender, a deeply romantic and empathetic study of young love between outsiders.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2023

The answer to how you blend a story like this is that it does not taste well, cannibal or not.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 14, 2023

The sort of moody melodrama that can be absorbed straight up or metaphorically.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2023