Malice
Prime Video | Release Date: November 14, 2025
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
5
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Screen RantGrant HermannsNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: Though Wood may not entirely overcome some of the rockier bits of his vision, particularly some story threads that are abandoned or thrown in, he has still put together a truly sumptuous treat with Malice. Read full review
80
The GuardianLucy ManganNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: It’s a great ride, and Whitehall acquits himself well in his first lead dramatic role, even if he is better at oblique menace than delivering straightforwardly murderous speeches. Duchovny is as skilled, nimble and charismatic as ever. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: Even in the extraordinary situations they portray, even when I didn’t buy a plot point or a development felt too convenient, I rarely felt that characters weren’t speaking as people do — or psychopaths, who are people too. Read full review
63
The Mercury NewsRandy MyersNov 21, 2025
Season 1 Review: This six-episode series, while being essentially indistinguishable from so many others of its ilk, goes above its own pay grade when Jamie (Duchovny) starts smelling a rat likely living in his posh London digs now. That’s when the series kicks into high gear and the hunt turns deadly, if predictable. Read full review
60
The TelegraphAnita Singh Nov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: In the end it sort of works. You’re watching a character who knows he shouldn’t really be there, played by a man who knows he shouldn’t really be there. Look at it that way, and perhaps the casting is a stroke of genius. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubTim LoweryNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: A few of Malice‘s twists do, again, suck you in. But some of the series’ more eye-roll-inducing and on-the-nose exchanges are tough to shake. Read full review
40
DeciderJoel KellerNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: While we liked the performances of Whitehall, Duchovny and van Houten, Malice really doesn’t give the viewers much in the way of dramatic momentum in the first episode, and the show doesn’t know whether it wants to be funny or scary. Read full review
40
VarietyAlison HermanNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: Neither Duchovny or Whitehall, who mostly works as a comedian, deepen their characters beyond “callous rich guy” or “vindictive psychopath.” From performances to plot, much of “Malice” feels like it’s on autopilot. Watching it feels much the same. Read full review
40
The IndependentPatrick SmithNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: This has the feel of one of those daft US imports shown on E4 about a decade ago: shiny and overblown in the same mould as, say, Revenge. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: It’s as hollow as the smiling villain at its center. What we are left with, in the absence of any compelling point, is a string of events to watch transpire between several people who are neither likable nor particularly interesting. Read full review
30
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: The revelations and final choices feel so casually considered that they collapse under any sort of analysis. It doesn’t leave one marveling at the arc of a villain or even a victim, just feeling mistreated by bad TV. Read full review
20
iTilly PearceNov 14, 2025
Season 1 Review: The story moves at a snail’s pace with clunky dialogue and a complete lack of the suspense needed to make a thriller work. Plots come and go without conclusion, and – worst of all – it’s boring. The acting is just the nail in the coffin. Read full review
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