US EditionGuillermo Del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Reviews: Are Rotten Tomatoes Critics Electrified?
Guillermo del Toro's $120 million Frankenstein adaptation features a star-studded cast and lavish production but received mixed critical reviews at its Venice Film Festival premiere.
- On August 30, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi attending amid mixed early reviews.
- At Netflix Tudum event earlier this year, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro called Frankenstein `the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life`, his first feature since Pinocchio.
- Running two and a half hours, the film's $120M production earned praise for Tamara Devenell's design and Mike Hill's creatures, while Alexandre Desplat's rich score added majesty.
- Rotten Tomatoes currently shows Frankenstein holds a 79% `fresh` rating from 19 reviews, and Netflix will release it in theaters on Oct. 17 before streaming on Nov. 7.
- Given del Toro's prior Venice success, Netflix is wagering that Frankenstein will spark an awards push as Venice winners are announced Sept. 6 by the Alexander Payne-led jury.
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Last night, at the Venice Film Festival, the audience greeted the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein with a standing ovation that lasted an incredible 13 minutes.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein May Be Grand, But It’s Not Quite Great
Guillermo del Toro does nothing by half measures, and his Frankenstein—premiering here at the Venice Film Festival—is so visually ornate, so charged with supersized feelings, that it feels a bit like four and a half movies squeezed into one. That’s both a plus and a minus. This is a story split into two parts: The first is told from the point of view of Victor Frankenstein, played by Oscar Isaac, a brilliant but arrogant scientist who builds a l…
That ugly mess of Frankenstein di del Toro. It happens even to the best. Sooner or later even a film by Guillermo del Toro had to shoot empty. Too bad it happened in the Competition in Venice 2025, in the middle of a forest of American productions that we were not even in Toronto. The film so long-awaited, chased, designed by the director since his infancy, must have lost copious pieces on the street between a productive delay and the other. Mon…
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