Critic Reviews for Brightburn on Moviebuff.com

The briskly paced yet pedestrian “Brightburn” is pretty low-watt in inspiration all around. Its evil kid can fly.

Dennis Harvey, Variety

“Superman” meets “The Omen” in “Brightburn,” a watchable but super-silly mix of superheroics and evil-child horror that mashes together singularly uninspired ideas from both.

Dennis Harvey, Variety

It’s just another scary movie with a nutso bad guy burning stuff down and looking freaky while doing it, and that’s something we’ve all seen before.

Kate Erbland, Indiewire

A great premise gets seriously squandered in this ridiculous superhero/horror movie mash-up

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Watch Brightburn for its entertaining execution of an intelligent premise.

Rochell Pereira, BookMyShow

Brightburn is better than expected, but still flawed.

Kate Boyle, Insession Film

By turning the traditional sunny superhero formula on its head, Brightburn gives us something dark, horrific and very entertaining.

Damond Fudge, KCCI Des Moines

Brightburn is gory, creepy, and obvious

David Edelstein, Vulture

It’s a daft, unambitious perversion of the Superman story.

Rohan Naahar, Hindustan Times

Towards the end, Dunn has fully taken on the character of Brightburn after a series of massive hate crimes and is a global threat.

Analita Seth, Filmfare

It’s a film that’s good enough that you want it to be better, a rare genre example of less not proving to be more.

Benjamin Lee, The Guardian

'Brightburn' offers a dark twist on the superhero mythos.

Rick Kisonak, Seven Days

Brightburn is ultimately a fine example of high-concept storytelling: taking an easily digestible idea, and exploring it to its full potential in compelling and entertaining fashion.

Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend

The evil superman movie is bloody, but undercooked

Sandy Schaefer, Screen Rant

‘Brightburn’ proves there’s more to the superhero genre if seen from a different perspective but does little else.

Neil Soans, The Times of India

Go into Brightburn with somewhat lowered expectations and you might very well have a super time.

Don Kaye, Den of Geek

Brightburn fully commits to evil Superman, and it’s all the better for it.

Katey Stoetzel, The Young Folks

A cool concept lost in execution in 'Brightburn'

Lindsey Bahr, The Roanoke Times

It’s not a perfect origin story, but it’s a perfectly fun and fucked up one that ultimately sticks the landing

Haleigh Foutch, Collider

Though Brightburn seldom strays too far from the expected, there are moments where a unique sensibility on the story takes hold.

Spencer Perry, ComingSoon.net

The makers are too enamoured with the concept and don't seem to realise it can't carry its run time alone.

Jonathan Roberts, The New Paper

The result is Brightburn, a wickedly fun little horror flick with enough gore and superhero lore to keep fans of both satisfied.

Witney Seibold, IGN

The execution is lacking, particularly in freshness, humor or style.

The Indian Express Source, Indian Express

This violent tale of a boy with malevolent powers struggles to impress in a Marvel-dominated genre.

Simran Hans, The Guardian

Brightburn is a thrilling and delightfully creepy experience with lots of fun to be had, but often lacks in the department of character development and world building.

Caillou Pettis, Flickering Myth

Brightburn is cold and unflinching, fully committed to unsettling its audience

Chris Evangelista, Slash Film

The film is disappointingly unambitious, but it offers up some terrifically brutal gore sequences

Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects