This homage to the early- to mid-’70s occult thriller also includes the genre's shortcomings.

The movie conjures love, magic, and a bit of death and destruction in a throwback to Technicolor exploitation films.

“The Love Witch” offers a campy, subtly powerful analysis of the poisonous state of gender roles and sexuality.

The movie is relentless in the way it poses questions about our culture’s way of dealing with the power of female sexuality.

“According to the experts, men are very fragile.” Shot in sumptuously lit 35mm, The Love Witch is a throwback to Hammer Horror films and Technicolor melodramas of the ‘50s and ‘60s, with set design and color schemes that seem to invoke the ghost of Jacques Demy, all in subservience to a decidedly retro ‘70s vibe

With this retro-styled gem, director Anna Biller provides a sumptuous response to ’70s sexploitation horror.

A big budget monster mash, Anne Heche vs. Sandra Oh, a feminist witch tale, and a doc on ballet's bad boy

Drenched in the Technicolor 60s, Anna Biller’s outrageous, showstopping B-movie oozes with A-grade potency

A sexy sorceress lures men into lethal love traps in multi-talented Anna Biller's feminist-tinged, exquisitely designed homage to Technicolor melodrama

Movie review of “The Love Witch”: The bewitching central character beguiles men to their doom in this film that plays like a parody. Rating: 1.5 stars out of 4.

Check out Matt Donato's Fantasia 2016 review of The Love Witch, an old-school throwback about lusty desires and occult practices.

It has an artisanal intensity that prevents it from turning into a smug and predictable exercise in political revision.

Anna Biller’s psychodrama is a love letter to a cinematic time long gone

Multi-talented LA filmmaker Anna Biller blends feminist theory with '70s horror in the lurid and ludicrous horror-thriller, The Love Witch.

This is a reprint of our review from the 2016 Fantasia Film Festival. MONTREAL — The first thing that you notice about Anna Biller‘s “The Love Witch,” making its Canadian Premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival, is how strikingly beautiful of a movie it is. Shot on 35mm, its look is inspired by 1960s sexploitation and […]

Feminist horror tale is marvelously detailed, but comes stuffed with much more than surface level delights

The Love Witch: EW review

Retro film recreates the era of sex-infused horror movies.

Anna Biller captures the colours, style and mores of the lurid 70s in this near-perfect pastiche

Read the Empire Movie review of The Love Witch. A genre-stretching horror melodrama crafted with extraordinary detail and style. A touch languid,...

Film is a feminist reinterpretation of 1970s genre cinema.

Again using early ‘70s-era sexploitation flicks as her aesthetic template, filmmaker Anna Biller transforms female objectification into empowerment with her slyly campy “The Love Witch."

Lush colours and laughs aplenty in a film that’s lighter than its director lets on

Anna Biller's brash tale of a glamourpuss witch is a meta-feminist reimagining of Sixties pop supernaturalia

Writer-director Anna Biller is clearly a fan of the powerful women in Russ Meyer’s sexploitation movies – films like ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’ (1965). Her

Samantha Robinson conjures a breakthrough performance for the ages in the year's most exciting and unexpected new monster movie.

If The Love Witch simply raised the profile of its director, Anna Biller—a true auteur who not only wrote, directed, produced, and edited this film but also designed and hand made its sets and costumes—then it would be a success. Biller’s devout attention to detail in her films means we don’t get a lot of them, and…