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It’s deeply silly, but eminently watchable.

An icky good time that’s primarily a love letter to the filmmaking process.

Benefitting from West’s knack for capturing period vibes and from an unusually engaging cast, the pic is meatier than the average slasher film…

While X points most overtly to the slasher classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – along with sly references to everything from The Shining to...

Ti West wears his influences on his sleeve, deliberately invoking the visual language of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

The expectations for West’s return to film were high, and luckily X brings this master of horror back with a bang.

It would be a mistake to call "X" a misfire – in its artisanal, period textures and delight in old-school atmospherics, it’s too well mad...

Ripe with playful winks and nudges.

Bloody. Brutal. Grungier than a big-city back alley and more guts-strewn than a slaughterhouse. This is how you like your slasher-flick horror...

X rips at the jugular with exuberant joy. This is old-school exploitation horror that isnt afraid to offend and doesnt care if the rough edges get...

This is an homage but also a strikingly original and cheerfully grotesque work, filled with dark humor, relatively complex subtext and gung-ho...

While West isnt always operating on the same levels as his influences, his signature flair for tension through simmering slow-burn pacing remains u...

There’s tension, proper fleshiness that makes the audience wince, and the actors seem to be really enjoying themselves. Entertaining and repu...

Ti West’s X delivers big on slasher-style thrills, but also adds in a shockingly powerful examination of aging, the power of beauty...

Ti West’s X vividly portrays the DIY-ness of like-minded types shooting a porno and taking the enterprise as seriously as an art film, b...

Like most of West’s films, X is not particularly ambitious in its psychology or storytelling. It’s his technique that makes his work feel like it h...

"X" pays off by showing what happens when characters are more than just meat for the grinder – or, for that matter, those doing the grinding.

I give West credit for having a vision and sticking to his own influences. He knows what he wants to do and how to execute it unapologetically.

"X" is a clever and exuberant throwback to a less innocent time, when movies could be naughty, disreputable and idiosyncratic.

X is a fun movie – a throwback to the Grindhouse pictures of the 1970s and the slasher genre of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.

West’s trademark slow build-up gives us every chance to imagine our own version of the mayhem on the way… To hold our attention in the meantime, he...

X is preoccupied with voyeurism across different generations, bringing together two genres – horror and porn – associated not just with t...

Traipsing into danger is the essential playbook of horror, a path well-trodden. But the brutal, giddy-making X, written and directed by Ti West, ma...

X provides a map for how to do the classics right while still taking the formula somewhere original.

By fusing two types of films that have long been bedfellows – slashers and pornography – X makes for a gripping shotgun marriage of...

X is a properly satisfying shocker.

Its a bit mind-boggling that West asked attendees at the SXSW Film Festival premiere to be circumspect regarding spoiling; he himself doles ou...

The folks within those frames actually seem like real people.

A narratively different beast that demonstrates why West should be given full reign to go full throttle on deranged, savage, and intense horror-com...

This isn’t a reinvention of the wheel, but a reminder of why the wheel became the industry standard in the first place.

Wests latest exploits two familiar scenarios simultaneously while offering a rejoinder to the moralistic gender and sexual stereotypes that de...

Sweaty, sexy and extremely fun slasher.