section_path: Reception/Critical response
section_name: Critical response
paragraph_text: Critical response
  
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 84% of 352 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Marvelously orchestrated by director Robert Eggers, Nosferatu is a behemoth of a horror film that is equal parts repulsive and seductive." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 59 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the movie an average grade of "B–" on an A+ to F scale.
  
  The Hollywood Reporter ' s David Rooney praised the direction, screenplay and performances, calling the film "exciting, repulsive and beautiful", and added that "It's thrilling to experience a movie so assured in the way it builds and sustains fear, so hypnotically scary as it grabs you by the throat and never lets go." IndieWire ' s David Ehrlich similarly praised the direction and singled out Depp's performance, before stating that "like all of Eggers' films, of which Nosferatu is the richest and most fully realized, it draws a spellbinding power from the friction it finds between historical social mores and the eternal human thirsts they exist to keep in check." John Mulderig at Catholic Review noted: "Film buffs will easily recognize that the atmospheric horror yarn Nosferatu (Focus) is both a variation on and an homage to the eponymous 1922... foundational film however, the newcomer is both artistically flawed and, ultimately, morally unbridled.... Nosferatu eventually goes off the ethical rails altogether as it moves toward a conclusion bogged down by the muddled metaphysics espoused by Von Franz".
  
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 84% of 352 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Marvelously orchestrated by director Robert Eggers, Nosferatu is a behemoth of a horror film that is equal parts repulsive and seductive." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 59 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the movie an average grade of "B–" on an A+ to F scale.
  
  The Hollywood Reporter ' s David Rooney praised the direction, screenplay and performances, calling the film "exciting, repulsive and beautiful", and added that "It's thrilling to experience a movie so assured in the way it builds and sustains fear, so hypnotically scary as it grabs you by the throat and never lets go." IndieWire ' s David Ehrlich similarly praised the direction and singled out Depp's performance, before stating that "like all of Eggers' films, of which Nosferatu is the richest and most fully realized, it draws a spellbinding power from the friction it finds between historical social mores and the eternal human thirsts they exist to keep in check." John Mulderig at Catholic Review noted: "Film buffs will easily recognize that the atmospheric horror yarn Nosferatu (Focus) is both a variation on and an homage to the eponymous 1922... foundational film however, the newcomer is both artistically flawed and, ultimately, morally unbridled.... Nosferatu eventually goes off the ethical rails altogether as it moves toward a conclusion bogged down by the muddled metaphysics espoused by Von Franz".