Thelma

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Thelma

2017

1h 56m

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.

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Critics Consensus

Thelma plays with genre tropes in unexpected ways, delivering a thoughtfully twisty supernatural thriller with a lingering impact.

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Kambole Campbell

One Room With A View

08/25/2018

3/5

Thelma is visually and sonically impressive, with images that linger in the mind long after the film has ended, but a superfluous narrative detour strips the film of any uniqueness.

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Peter Keough

Boston Globe

01/18/2018

3.5/4

The scary moments are there, but they take patience. And then they take you by surprise.

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Barbara VanDenburgh

Arizona Republic

12/07/2017

3.5/5

"Thelma" treads the line between the psychological and supernatural, gracefully at first, and then with increasing abandon.

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

01/22/2025

Trier tries on his first genre film. But instead of making a typical teen superhero flick, he portrays being adolescent truthfully - frightening sexuality: massive confusion where you can't trust your feelings nor your body & the terror of being in love.

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Brian T. Carney

Washington Blade

12/15/2022

A gripping Norwegian drama that is both irresistible and rather hard to describe.

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Sara Clements

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10/27/2022

Joachim Trier’s Norwegian supernatural thriller Thelma gives us a new kind of queer superhero.

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Unique C.

@uniquecliches Dec 28

The movie has beautiful cinematography and music, making it a pleasant watch overall. The script begins promisingly but then veers off track and becomes somewhat silly. It would have probably worked better if it were a bit more subtle when it comes to all the supernatural events

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lee C.

@leechew Dec 3

A huge disappointment.

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Gabriel T

@GabrielFagundes Jul 29

It extremely effective in making the audience feel all kinds of things. It makes you fear the danger of a character disappear due to Thelma's ability and for what her parents would be capable of doing to stop her. To not know what is happening and the religious homofobia from her parents only increase the tension and the thrill. The dramatic aspect here is brutal and guilty is present. The characters are deep and have layers. At first, I thought it was just an uncreative sobrenatural horror, I was wrong

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jeroen v

May 18

Slow burner and leaves you hanging in the end.

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Madam D

@Madam1948 Mar 26

A unique film with supernatural qualities, but somehow still believeable. After mostly being sad, the ending is almost happy.

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Rob G

11/24/2024

Very good movie. For those that like fast pace and action, this is not for you. However, the plot payoff is worth it if you can sit through this slow burner of a movie. Is reminiscent of the old 1970s movie Carrie without all the high school stuff but modernized.

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Synopsis

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.

Director: Joachim Trier
Producer: Thomas Robsahm
Screenwriter: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
Distributor: The Orchard
Production Co: Motlys, Eurimages, Le Pacte, Film i Väst
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: Norwegian
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 10, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 16, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $147.1K
Runtime: 1h 56m

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