Metascore
52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Negative: 3 out of 12

Critic Reviews

  1. Reviewed by: Grant Hermanns
    Nov 14, 2025
    80
    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.
  2. Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Nov 14, 2025
    80
    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.
  3. Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Nov 14, 2025
    70
    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.
  4. Reviewed by: Randy Myers
    Nov 21, 2025
    63
    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.