Master
Amazon Studios | Release Date (Streaming): March 18, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
10
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Observer (UK)Simran HansMar 20, 2022
Diallo utilises the visual language of horror – red lighting, empty shower stalls, a gnarled hand that emerges from under the bed – to express the terror of racism and the rot of its legacy. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 16, 2022
The movie shrewdly creates a shiver of nausea in the institutional use of “diversity” as another prestige-marker. Read full review
60
Time OutDave CalhounJan 25, 2022
This is a smart, meaningful first film, with nods all over the place to classics like The Shining and Rosemary’s Baby, as well as more recent obvious touch points like Get Out. It’s not all subtle, but then neither is prejudice. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 21, 2022
Master never shakes the feeling that we’re seeing a collection of tropes and ideas that never come together in a coherent narrative. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJessica KiangMar 17, 2022
Master ends up a genre film in which the outlandish generic elements — the witches and the maggots, the fizzing bulbs and out-of-sync shadows — are far less frightening than its portrayal of this real, everyday world in which racism isn’t a long-dead bogeyman; it’s alive, breathing, banal. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayMar 16, 2022
Master might be a horror film, but its scariest elements are off screen, in the form of the persistent social realities that inspired it. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussMar 16, 2022
The thing that may be most chilling about “Master” is how its three protagonists want and need to support one another but ultimately cannot due to internal as well as external forces. Read full review
50
The Film StageDan MeccaJan 27, 2022
Master is ultimately undone by its overreaching scope. Read full review
40
Little White LiesCheyenne BunsieMar 17, 2022
Buoyed by a strong performance from Regina Hall, it’s a thought-provoking debut from Diallo, but one, unfortunately, weighed down by hokey jump scares that undermine its much more interesting commentary. Read full review
40
The GuardianLisa Wong MacabascoJan 26, 2022
Hall, always a joy to watch, shows yet another, more subdued, side of her prodigious craft. But the film fails to build real suspense, and the scary scenes feel rote and often inelegant, like ticking off a college-horror-movie shot list. Read full review
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