Sew Torn is creative and original, visually vibrant and stimulating, whimsical and a bit quirky, and quite entertaining and fun, with everything perfectly threaded through the cinematic needle to create a fabulous tapestry.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2025

The quirks of this slightly fantastical black-comedy crime thriller are many, varied, and messily disjointed. But there’s a delicious oddness to its unpredictability and its spin on familiar tropes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2025

Although its ambition sometimes exceeds its grasp, this offbeat crime thriller navigates some clever science-fiction twists with a winning balance of humor and suspense.

Full Review | Jun 13, 2025

Freddy Macdonald's feature-length debut embraces the offbeat and visually distinctive Rashomon-style crime comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 13, 2025

It's a nifty trick of a thriller, filled with even niftier tricks of comedic invention.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2025

Very clever, but I've seen this story a few hundred times in my life.

Full Review | Jun 12, 2025

This whimsical, off-kilter crime thriller is full of dark humor and thoughtful reflections on fate and free will.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2025

It’s quite the trick to see be pulled off, but I was far from torn in appreciating what this film had to offer.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 6, 2025

Sew Torn can get tedious with its overabundance of offbeat characters. However, it's an intriguing story showing three different outcomes when a lonely seamstress decides what to do about finding cash and two wounded criminals on a deserted road.

Full Review | May 25, 2025

The film sacrifices coherence as it attempts to measure up to some of its Coen-esque crime caper inspirations.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.1/10 | May 13, 2025

A seamstress's techniques are as skillful as a rock climber's, but on a thread-and-needle scale. Question is, will she use this bizarre talent for good or bad?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 11, 2025

Eve Connolly is charming and sympathetic, quirky and resourceful, drawing us in with her quiet demeanor and then shocking us by her devious schemes and a wonderfully bizarre interpretive dance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2025

Sew Torn presents an intriguing, sometimes comedic tale about fate and choices, but unfortunately wears its premise thin well before the movie ends.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | May 9, 2025

“Sew Torn” isn’t a genre exercise, not really. It’s more of an off-kilter riff on the familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2025

If the Coen Brothers had spent a summer working behind the counter at Joann Fabrics when they were teenagers, the result might be “Sew Torn.”

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2025

With its inventive storytelling, standout performance, and thrilling direction, Sew Torn is a discovery audiences won’t soon forget.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 8, 2025

In a world of generic action thrillers, Sew Torn is a breath of fresh air, a take on a well-worn genre that isn’t afraid to get a little weird with it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2025

Macdonald nestles Run Lola Run’s loop-like structure inside a cozy crime thriller, the type that comes heavily armed with a sense of whimsy, if a bit subdued.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2025

While Connolly is great as the resourceful dressmaker, it’s the supporting ensemble of weird and wonderful characters which makes Sew Torn shine.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2025

A strong turn from Irish actor John Lynch as the head gangster, a genuine sense of style, and a satisfying ending sugar the pill.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2025