The Killing of a Sacred Deer2017

🏆 7 wins & 53 nominations total

The Fear Score take

A cold dread that tightens by degrees. Lanthimos strips every scene of warmth until the flat, affectless dialogue becomes its own instrument of terror. You wait in vain for the film to blink; it never does. What settles over you is less shock than a creeping certainty that something inevitable is closing in.

• —Flat, affectless delivery breeds unbearable dread
• —A slow tightening toward the inevitable
• Clinical coldness that denies all relief