Martha
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): October 25, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
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Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 29, 2024
With the great American filmmaker R.J. Cutler (“The War Room,” “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry”) delivering a briskly paced but thorough film that ticks off the many amazing chapters in Stewart’s life, “Martha” is one of the best documentaries of the year. Read full review
80
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonNov 14, 2024
“Martha” feels like a far more comprehensible key to Stewart — who has been the subject of speculation, fascination, jokes that turn cruel and plenty of schadenfreude — than half a century of media attention has managed to find. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 30, 2024
As the warts and all image emerges, with her surgically-polished profile never breaking a sweat, we still can’t help but get a kick out of her Bieber-Snoop fed revival. Because as much as her comeuppance seemed destined, that “comeback” makes her story as American as they come. Read full review
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IndieWireKate ErblandOct 23, 2024
If nothing else, audience members will walk away from Martha with a far greater understanding of Stewart — of all the “good things,” in her parlance, and plenty of the bad — and equal admiration and unease of what that all adds up to. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanDec 5, 2024
It’s a movie that captures how Martha Stewart’s penetration into American culture seems, in hindsight, as inevitable as it was unlikely. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 1, 2024
Cutler’s onscreen interactions with Stewart, as well as occasional forays into the way she treats the people around her, turn the picture into something a lot slippier and the subject into someone more captivating. Read full review
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TheWrapSteve PondOct 23, 2024
Time and again, Stewart clams up or shuts down when she’d prodded on sensitive subjects; you get the feeling she’s humoring her filmographer with only slightly more restraint than she might show to a kitchen helper who uses the wrong knife to cut an orange. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergDec 5, 2024
In lieu of revelations, though, what keeps Martha engaging is watching Cutler thrust and parry with his subject. Read full review
60
The GuardianAdrian HortonOct 30, 2024
Martha is, after all, the star – a fascinating narrator of her own life, sometimes direct, sometimes curiously opaque or self-contradictory, always evincing a glowing, undaunted ambition. As the OG influencer, she lived the rule: whatever happens, just keep pushing forward. The people will keep watching. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerOct 29, 2024
Stewart’s impact is evident within the first hour of “Martha.” That’s a good thing, because the younger audience this film might be targeting lacks the patience for another hour of Cutler’s photo parade, no matter how extraordinary his subject. Read full review
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