Smile promises viewers will leave with terrified faces

'Smile,' written and directed by Parker Finn as feature debut, echoes films like 'It Follows' and 'The Ring.' Sosie Bacon stars and is outstanding.

What it lacks in originality, Parker Finn’s feature debut makes up for in blood-chilling craft.

Any thoughtful or true exploration of mental illness and how it manifests is cast aside in favor of the increasingly gory encounters that torment Rose.

Though not as strong as other horror films released in 2022, Parker Finn’s feature-directing debut offers a haunting exploration of trauma and fear.

Written and directed by Parker Finn, Smile personifies trauma and examines its ripple effect

There are traces of It Follows and The Ring in Parker Finn's diabolically effective horror movie Smile.

A traumatised doctor starts seeing terrifying smiles in Parker Finn's psychological horror. Read the Empire review.

‘Smile’ suffers from never evolving past the basics – that trauma begets trauma and, if left unchecked and unexamined, can consume a person’s life

Fantastic Fest: The phrase “smile through the pain” takes on a menacing new meaning in writer/director Parker Finn’s gruesome film.

A skin-prickling, unnerving viewing experience, Parker Finn’s first feature is an astonishing demonstration of film-making restraint

The horror movie "Smile," in which a therapist catches a curse from a patient, expands its simple premise by focusing on genre tropes and trends.

It feels like every other scary movie these days eventually comes around to being About Trauma™, but Parker Finn’s debut feature Smile is the only one…

The face that launched a thousand fears.

Parker Finn’s debut will put a grin on any horror fan’s face

Has the COVID-19 pandemic brought out the best in horrorfilmmakers? 2022 has not been a good year for cinema, but it has been a verygood year for horror. Smi...

Smile leans too heavily not only on formulaic mystery plotting, but also on horror themes and imagery lifted from popular hits like The Ring and It Follows.

It isn’t the few jolts, the horror shocks that get you in “Smile.” It’s the stress. Here’s a thriller that creates unease and does a decent job of ...

A creepfest about a curse that causes killers and victims to sport psychotically joyful smile knows exactly how to get under your skin, one unnerving express...

Everything 'Smile' is doing is familiar enough to be old-fangled, but the precision of its craft sloughs away any sense of déjà vu.

Smile will leave you wanting to revisit the movies this one 'borrows' from.

In Parker Finn’s feature debut, a doctor is haunted by people who grin maniacally before committing brutal violence.

Ruben Östlund's Palme D'Or-winner hits a fat target dead center and two new horror films follow trends from different eras.

The plot trappings might seem familiar, but writer-director Parker Finn creates something very new and very terrifying

A therapist looks like she's losing her mind in a shocker that puts a happy face on trauma.

The new horror film starts out in a wonderfully creepy and inventive fashion but eventually devolves into generic horror tedium.

'Smile' feels plucked from our collective unconscious like a paralysis demon.