Servants
Film Movement | Release Date (Streaming): February 25, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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8
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0
Negative:
0
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90
Screen DailySarah WardFeb 25, 2022
This is an unsettling rebuke of government control and ideological manipulation — as well as a sharp cry against compliance with the prevailing status quo. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 25, 2022
Servants is briskly shaped at just under 80 minutes, yet its alien-historical world-building is effective enough that you emerge from it feeling both out of time and out of breath: Any longer, and all humanity would bleed out of this earthly-but-ethereal conspiracy drama entirely. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyFeb 25, 2022
Servants confirms the director as a major talent. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 25, 2022
Pure evil permeates this brief, 80-minute film, whose cold visual brilliance reminds me of the recent movies of Paweł Pawlikowski. It wasn’t until some time after it had finished that I grasped one of the reasons it was so oppressive: there are no women in it at all. There is a chill of political fear. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Simran HansFeb 25, 2022
Ostrochovský’s camera emphasises the constricting architecture of both church and state, with its black and white morality and a claustrophobic central courtyard, frequently portrayed via stiff, judgmental God’s-eye shots. Read full review
80
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanFeb 25, 2022
Ostrochovsky often begins shots with characters frozen in place for several seconds before they launch into action, as if they were chess pieces moved by God across the bare lines of the seminary’s crumbling stone architecture. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 25, 2022
Ostrochovský never quite achieves “riveting” with this narrative. But he’s made a chilling reminder of the Bad Old Days, when the Cold War might have given the world moral clarity about who was for freedom and civil liberties and who sought to quash them. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungFeb 25, 2022
If nothing else, the period picture represents an impressive change of pace from Ostrochovsky’s hard-knock feature directorial debut. Read full review
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