The Parenting
Max | Release Date (Streaming): March 13, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMar 12, 2025
The film, which bows on Max on March 13, is low on genuine scares, but it does boast an appealing cast, whose comic chops elevate the flick slightly above the standard streamer slush. Read full review
48
Paste MagazineJim VorelMar 13, 2025
All in all, The Parenting is just a notably scattershot affair, from its poorly defined character relationships, to its questionable pacing (and eventual abrupt ending), to CGI that sometimes looks fine and other times is suddenly and shockingly inept, like what I’d expect to see in a feature from The Asylum or Troma. Read full review
42
IndieWireVikram MurthiMar 13, 2025
Shot and directed like a sitcom episode, The Parenting runs on (good, awkward, creepy) vibes, which is probably why Parker Posey, who plays the home’s “mysterious” owner and exposition dispenser, injects energy into the film just by being her off-kilter self. . . Unfortunately, The Parenting isn’t a hangout movie where tone can reign supreme. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMar 13, 2025
As a comedy, it stops being funny and as a horror it never starts being scary with Johnson’s direction far too drab and lifeless for something so cartoonish and schlocky. Big swing, bigger miss. Read full review
40
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiMar 12, 2025
We watch The Parenting in blasé curiosity, as we engage in the purely intellectual exercise of sussing out what’s gone wrong. Read full review
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