Good Madam
Shudder | Release Date (Streaming): July 14, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
SlashfilmCass ClarkeJul 19, 2022
Good Madam takes its time to linger on subtle and chilling notes before unveiling its fantastic finish. The only drawback to the film is it hints at more supernatural events than we ever see play out on-screen. Read full review
80
Screen DailyNikki BaughanJul 15, 2022
The film expertly blends satirical social commentary and disturbing horror tropes to shine a light on the appalling racial and economic divides that still shape the country 30 years after the end of apartheid. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeJul 15, 2022
A quiet, tightly wound horror film, Bass’ fourth and most briskly accomplished feature might flirt with the supernatural, but finds terror aplenty in social dynamics that, to many a South African, are perfectly ordinary. Read full review
75
The Film StageJared MobarakJul 15, 2022
There’s some gnarly imagery that comes once, in Good Madam‘s second half, the supernatural takes over from the historical and characters find themselves falling into the trance of larger, systemic issues plaguing our world for millennia. But the beginning is just as tense and anxiety-inducing in its more normal sense of reality. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJul 15, 2022
The movie doesn’t shy away from magic spells and arcane African blood rituals, but the real dark mojo that Bass is bringing so starkly to the big screen involves the cycles and privilege and exclusion that seems to persist through every attempt at exorcism. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineMatt DonatoJul 12, 2022
There’s nothing exceptionally freaky outside one or two practical effects of bodily implications, and yet Good Madam still finds nationally significant ways to summon societal fears. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 28, 2022
The story has hints of Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of horror about it, and is clever enough to be well worth a look, no matter how many credited screenwriters it took to come up with it and polish into the production screenplay. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 15, 2022
Good Madam is an intriguing, atmospheric movie which doesn’t quite tie up all its sinister portents and implications in a satisfying ending. Yet there is something very unsettling in it. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonJul 14, 2022
What I saw was a racially suspect disaster and another exploitation of Black pain for cheap, lazy thrills. Good Madam is a bad movie. Read full review
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