Variety
It's a squalid formula picture that's too busy connecting dots, hitting beats, engineering situations designed to make you squirm. But you will squirm.
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Ma (2019)
Octavia Spencer is a lonely woman who befriends—and begins to obsess over—a group of teenagers in this Blumhouse horror thriller.
201999 minsUSA
HorrorThriller
- Director:
- Tate Taylor ('The Help', 'Pretty Ugly People', 'The Girl on the Train')
- Writer:
- Scotty LandesTate Taylor
- Cast:
- Octavia SpencerJuliette LewisMissi PyleLuke EvansDiana SilversKyanna Simone SimpsonAllison JanneyMcKaley Miller
Ma (2019) / Reviews
Time Out
It's an unusually potent atmosphere for a quickie Blumhouse horror project; you can't say this one is elevated by the presence of Octavia Spencer - it's more that she allows herself to descend to the crazy-eyed pleasures of being monstrous.
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The movie ties itself up in knots as it tries to be provocative without giving offense, and offering more complacency and comfort than terror.
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The Guardian
There's a great deal of fun to be had hanging out with Ma, a nasty yet surprisingly empathetic slab of exploitation with more than just carnage on its mind.
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Rolling Stone
In her first horror film, Octavia Spencer is a twisted treat, but this predictable Blumhouse scarefest rarely lives up to the irresistible dynamo at its centre,
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Hollywood Reporter
Unsatisfying as a psycho-killer vehicle for Octavia Spencer, it may pull some genre fans in for opening week but is unlikely to leave them buzzing.
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Empire Magazine
An ersatz, misjudged exercise in psycho-horror that lacks the courage of its B movie convictions.
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