Lamb is as much a strange domestic drama as an A24 horror movie

Lamb captures grief by oscillating between the beautiful and the horrific.

Blinding snow, heavy breathing from an unseen force: The first few seconds of “Lamb” suggests Liam Neeson has returned for another wintry exercise in hum...

★★★★☆ Though it is inhabited by folkloric creatures, Lamb ultimately reveals itself as a human drama that uses generic conventions as a way of exam...

From its marketing materials, you'd be forgiven for thinking Lamb is another Classic A24 horror of the Witch and Midsommar mold; far from it.

Sly wit and great atmospherics compensate for a less-than scintillating story line.

Noomi Rapace makes a mysterious discovery in her sheep shed in Valdimar Jóhannsson's darkly comic horror drama. Read the Empire review.

Between the marketing strategy and October release date for A24’s latest, “Lamb,” it would be natural to assume that this is a horror film meant to tak...

Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Gudnason play Icelandic sheep farmers who seize on a startling discovery during lambing season as a way to heal their pain in V...

Cannes: Valdimar Jóhannsson's first feature is derivative in parts but impressive once its big twist comes together.

Icelandic art-horror is smart, clever and consistently surprising

...proceeds with a slowly (very slowly) building dread that stifles any laughter.

Noomi Rapace brings a steady but feminine power to the dark Icelandic tale "Lamb," about a couple raising a sheep as if it were their child.

The fable-like quality of Valdimar Jóhannsson’s feature debut is evident in this premise alone, as a childless couple yearn for a baby to call their own,…

The Icelandic fantasy about a hybrid child has one good plot twist but no substantial characters.

A fierce sense of originality you won’t be able to shake and look away from nearly makes up for the film’s relative lack of depth.

A parable about parenting and a grim fairytale about grief and the Natural Order of Things, “Lamb” might be the oddest film you settle in for this year. ...

'Lamb' begins as a fairy tale of a couple caring for an unusual animal. Then it turns into a disturbing horror-movie nightmare. Our review.

Confident Icelandic debut which 'walks a delicate balance between supernatural thriller and absurdist comedy'

Though eerie and quietly deadpan, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s 'Lamb' circles its grab bag of themes for so long that it simply becomes tedious.

Dialogue is kept to a minimum in Valdimar Johannsson’s film about a childless Icelandic couple.

Lamb is something like a folk tale, Iceland-icized: dark, mysterious, with a creeping sense of dread, and a moral lesson that may or may not work, depending ...

First-time helmer Valdimar Jóhannsson guides Noomi Rapace through a child-rearing scenario of wonder and weirdness

A slow-burn contemporary folk horror that beds a ludicrous central twist so deep in damp Icelandic austerity you can almost believe it.

The new A24 movie has a way with wordlessness — for better and worse.