Mary
Film & TV House | Release Date: October 11, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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1
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2
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The PlaylistWarren CantrellOct 10, 2019
Gripping, intriguing, and well-paced, Mary overcomes most of the issues with its overwritten script to emerge as a serviceable entry in the genre’s canon. Sure, the film lists from time to time, but it always manages to right itself when it matters. Read full review
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ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 10, 2019
When it comes to waterborne movies, Wolfgang Petersen’s "The Perfect Storm" (not a horror film) is more terrifying than Mary. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayOct 10, 2019
The idea of this boat as a last-ditch play to save a marriage is fine as an inciting incident, but it ends up steering the story way too much. Oldman and Mortimer play the drama in “Mary” well. Too bad they don’t get much chance to play the horror. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyOct 11, 2019
Unfortunately, Mary's concept - and it's a good one! - doesn't blossom into the truly spooky, the truly eerie, even though it's given countless chances to do so. Read full review
38
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiOct 9, 2019
Michael Goi, serving as both director and director of photography, does a better job placing the camera around the claustrophobic location than he does exploring the depths of his actors. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChuck BowenOct 8, 2019
With the filmmakers unwilling to explore a kinky, psychosexual bond between a man and his demonic lady ghost-boat, Mary comes to feel as if lacks a through line, collapsing into a series of disconnected horror-movie beats. Read full review
30
Film ThreatAlex SavelievOct 11, 2019
Goi and his screenwriter Anthony Jaswinski must have thought that simply stuffing the film with as many shock tactics as possible would suffice. It doesn’t. This ship goes down with her captains. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaOct 10, 2019
Director Michael Goi is big on jump shocks that get increasingly tiresome. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckOct 10, 2019
It would, after all, take a sleuth of Hercule Poirot-like talents to discern what attracted these supremely talented (not to mention, in the case of one of them, Oscar-winning) thespians to such lame, cliched material. Read full review
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The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOct 10, 2019
Narrative ellipses and a slew of visual clichés — like vague shapes, ghostly footprints and disorienting flashes of light — make Mary (the name shared by the ship and the couple’s younger daughter) a particularly unsatisfying possession yarn. Read full review
30
VarietyDennis HarveyOct 9, 2019
Beyond de rigueur jump scares, Mary has little real atmosphere or suspense, and that is at least partly due to the fact that its supernatural force is so generically ill-defined. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedOct 14, 2019
At the movies, bad things happen to good people all the time. But it’s especially lamentable to see two sterling silver talents of the caliber of Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer trapped in a mindless trifle like Mary. It’s a watery tale of supernatural nonsense at sea as lost and immobile as a beached mackerel. Read full review
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