The Front Room
A24 | Release Date: September 6, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
12
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
SlashfilmBill BriaSep 5, 2024
This is very likely going to be a crowd pleasing movie, one to hoot and holler about. Beneath all that hooting and hollering, though, lies a psychologically rich tale that I believe will reward multiple viewings. Read full review
79
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiSep 5, 2024
The Eggers Brothers have a canny way of balancing those wildly different tones. We’re frightened for each character, even when we point and giggle at them. It’s a twisted film. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerSep 5, 2024
What makes The Front Room universal is that it’s ultimately about power, about who runs the house. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweSep 5, 2024
The Front Room perhaps leans more toward the repulsive than the highbrow, potentially carving out its own distinct genre niche. Read full review
70
ColliderJeff EwingSep 5, 2024
Altogether, it's a solid dark comedy in the trappings of a psychological horror film. Read full review
60
Little White LiesPatrick SproullOct 25, 2024
If you’re able to make peace with the faecal smears on the wall painted by a cackling Olivier winner known for her physical performances, The Front Room is an entertaining, morbidly funny slice of perverse B-movie exploitation horror. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarSep 7, 2024
The contrived third act notwithstanding, expect audiences in movie theaters to engage with The Front Room in audible gasps, one nauseating stunt at a time. Read full review
60
The GuardianAdrian HortonSep 5, 2024
The Front Room does capture one delicious, rich truth: hell hath no fury like a mother-in-law scorned. Read full review
60
IGNLena WilsonSep 5, 2024
Though it features delightfully weird visuals and a stellar turn by Kathryn Hunter, The Front Room can’t find its identity, both on-screen and in its own marketing. Read full review
50
Screen RantGrant HermannsJan 11, 2025
It's ultimately Hunter and Brandy's performances that keep The Front Room from feeling like a complete missed opportunity and an occasionally engaging watch. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonSep 6, 2024
It’s passable for an easy watch and some uncomfortable chuckles but is bearable only on behalf of Hunter’s loyal antagonism while falling short just about everywhere else. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisSep 5, 2024
The Front Room has its virtues, including the funereal production design, with its forlorn rooms and faded wallpaper. Yet from its goo to boos, the whole enterprise is so familiar and at times rote that it feels as though Sam and Max Eggers haven’t so much directed the movie as reverse-engineered it. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineRocco T. ThompsonSep 5, 2024
If there’s any food for thought in The Front Room, it’s the ongoing portrayal of old folks in the A24 catalog. Read full review
42
IndieWireAlison ForemanSep 5, 2024
Overwrought with visual style but relentlessly one-note, The Front Room is willfully annoying and dubious in its purpose. Read full review
40
EmpireSiddhant AdlakhaOct 24, 2024
The Front Room features a remarkably funny performance from Kathryn Hunter as a mischievous mother-in-law, but its tale of lurking danger remains malformed. Read full review
40
Paste MagazineCasey Epstein-GrossSep 13, 2024
There is so much that can be mined from the terrifying experience of aging, but The Front Room is decidedly uninterested in everything that wellspring of tragedy has to offer—save for incontinence, and that is something (perhaps the only thing) it is very, very interested in. Read full review
40
VarietyTomris LafflySep 5, 2024
With the exception of “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Oscar nominee Kathryn Hunter’s fiercely committed performance, much of this well-designed but boring film yields a shrug. Read full review
38
ObserverDylan RothSep 6, 2024
The Front Room, the new horror-comedy from filmmakers Max & Sam Eggers and A24, boasts a strong premise and a game cast, but it’s not particularly scary or funny. It’s surreal, clever, and occasionally visually quirky enough to fit the “indie horror” mold, but a little too unsubtle and user-friendly to feel like arthouse fare. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 6, 2024
Co-writers/directors Sam and Max Eggers go for symbolic nightmares and simple toilet-accidents for shocks and wicked sneers that only Belinda sees to set us up for something more fraught, fundamental and final than their movie delivers. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanSep 5, 2024
Despite what the singer/actress says, there’s not much to scream, let alone clap, about here. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubEli GonzalezSep 6, 2024
It simply isn’t very scary. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSep 5, 2024
The Front Room becomes an exercise in psychological torture porn; it’s a movie you endure rather than enjoy. Read full review
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