Mārama
Dark Sky Films | Release Date: April 17, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
IndieWireAlison ForemanMay 19, 2026
For all its real-world anguish and fictional dread, Mārama never collapses beneath the weight of its own seriousness. Stappard understands that catharsis matters too, and the film’s conclusion is exhilarating. Read full review
91
IndieWireAlison ForemanMay 18, 2026
For all its real-world anguish and fictional dread, Mārama never collapses beneath the weight of its own seriousness. Stappard understands that catharsis matters too, and the film’s conclusion is exhilarating. Read full review
83
Original-CinLiam LaceyMay 13, 2026
Neither exactly a horror movie nor a costume drama, Mārama stakes out its original narrative ground as a kind of cathartic pageant or imaginary exorcism of history’s ghosts. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerApr 30, 2026
Mārama is arguably at its most effective as a political text when it isn’t trying so hard to be part of the heritage that includes Hitchcock’s Rebecca and del Toro’s Crimson Peak. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comCarlos AguilarApr 17, 2026
The fury of Osborne’s performance, nonetheless, keeps “Mārama” a worthy anti-colonialist statement that harnesses the symbolic virtues of genre cinema for its understandably virulent tone. Read full review
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