Cam
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): November 16, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
89
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerNov 15, 2018
While Cam feels authentic, it's not a documentary. Read full review
83
The VergeBryan BishopNov 28, 2018
Cam focuses less on the real ways technology can be weaponized, and more on how vulnerable people can feel when their online identities are ripped away from them. Read full review
83
The PlaylistJordan RuimyNov 12, 2018
Brewer, of course, is the glue that holds the puzzle together. If we didn’t care for her surreal plight, then the film would just not work, but the actress builds a thoroughly believable character in Alice. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichNov 12, 2018
Goldhaber’s steady hand ensures that things are rivetingly queasy from start to finish, and Brewer’s performance is powerful enough to flip the script on the entire cam experience. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeNov 12, 2018
Mazzei’s script and Goldhaber’s direction complement each other beautifully, with true-to-life details like the tacky dollar-store carpet that decorates Alice’s camming room and the pink taser she keeps in her car playing off of—and enhancing—the naturalistic dialogue. Read full review
80
IGNRosie KnightNov 19, 2018
Cam is an authentic, unexpected, and thrilling addition to modern horror canon.... It's a unique experiment, one that works incredibly well and benefits greatly from Mazzei's voice and Goldhaber's thoughtful direction. Read full review
80
SlateInkoo KangNov 15, 2018
The wonderfully versatile Brewer, who’s in virtually every scene, pulls off essentially three “characters”: Alice, Alice as Lola, and Bizarro Lola. It’s a bravura performance that flits between several realities while keeping the film grounded as the plot twists make narrative leap after narrative leap. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoNov 16, 2018
This is the kind of clever jolt to the system we want from horror thrillers — an unexpected commentary on today’s society burrowing its way through an intense story. Read full review
75
ConsequenceRandall ColburnNov 15, 2018
It’s gripping stuff, especially since Goldhaber and Mazzei map out an endgame that’s maintains an intriguing ambiguity while still providing a definitive conclusion. Read full review
70
VoxAja RomanoNov 19, 2018
Cam is a sympathetic, saucy thriller, by turns lush and lurid, that pulls us down the web’s darker corridors — to question what lurks there, sure, but also to remind us that we’ve all spent time in those darker corners and there’s a reason we like them. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonNov 12, 2018
Cam is a suspenseful mind-bender with plenty of timely feminist subtext. It takes viewers down some unexpected rabbit holes and commendably avoids pandering to male-gaze sex-thriller tropes, even if it ultimately fails to deliver on its grippingly weird early promise. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakNov 12, 2018
Mazzei expertly creates this sense of contrasting arguments through the mystery she’s crafted, letting its terror metaphorically represent the struggle sex workers combat psychologically thanks to America’s prudish nature forcing them to lead dual lives. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayNov 15, 2018
On a narrative level, Mazzei and Goldhaber don’t come up with enough ideas for how to capitalize on their hooky premise. But on a character level? The filmmakers and Brewer capture the mounting existential anxiety of a woman who’s constructed an entire identity on-line and is horrified to see that it can keep on living without her. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNov 15, 2018
Cam is more successful as an oddly feminist tale of gutsy self-reliance than as a fully developed drama. Read full review
60
VarietyDennis HarveyNov 12, 2018
Reflective of its subject, the movie is content to exist on the stimulating surface, teasing us with the promise of something deeper while skirting around its delivery. Read full review
60
The New YorkerRichard BrodyNov 12, 2018
The realization of her life online, as she interacts with a profusion of screens and windows, is extraordinarily complex and detailed, but the drama is thin and predictable; despite the quasi-documentary authenticity of the details of Alice’s work, the movie offers more prowess than perspective. Read full review
50
Film Journal InternationalRebecca PahleNov 12, 2018
Unfortunately, a solid premise can only carry a film so far, and Goldhaber fails to deliver on Cam’s potential. Read full review
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