“Good Mother” rattles not with gore but with the weight of history and injustice.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2022

Doesn’t shy away from magic spells and arcane African blood rituals, but the real dark mojo that Bass is bringing so starkly to the big screen involves the cycles of privilege and exclusion that seems to persist through every attempt at exorcism.

| Jul 15, 2022

Good Madam is an intriguing, atmospheric movie which doesn’t quite tie up all its sinister portents and implications in a satisfying ending. Yet there is something very unsettling in it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2022

Matching familiar genre tropes to a particular national malaise, it pulls off a fine balance of universal resonance and cultural specificity.

| Sep 22, 2021

Despite the film's almost entirely Black cast, it's hard to forget there is a white woman at the helm, attempting to unpack weighty racial themes that do not feel hers to explore.

| Sep 14, 2021

Mlungu Wam is a masterclass in how horror can speak to race and inequality, set in a world of servitude presented as a terrifying, powerful and unrelentingly enduring mode of postcolonial possession

| Sep 12, 2021

A slow build of psychological and supernatural horror that sometimes confuses but always engages.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2021