This excellent insidious film transmits fear by remote control. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 10, 2022

The Maid features one of my favorite movie endings in recent years. Slice of life that is both touching and real.

| Mar 24, 2021

[A] pointed examination of domestic politics; a startling portrait of a life given over to others; a beautifully observed film about the smallest of everyday things that somehow feels huge and noble and universal.

| Feb 17, 2021

Told with nonchalant sexual candor, The Maid examines a wealthy Chilean family as both buttress against change and unlikely incubator for new social and political mores.

| Jun 18, 2020

Women in Hollywood don't often get roles as meaty as the one Catalina Saavedra has here, and she doesn't squander her opportunity in Silva's thrilling tale of one woman's progression from oppression to self-awareness.

| Jan 23, 2020

The performance at the center of this film and the breath of fresh air provided by the lively Miss Loyola remind us that there are depths no one suspects at the center of that iconic figure in a black-and-white uniform.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2018

This is a subtle and intelligent movie, which knows that from small acorns mighty oaks grow.

| Aug 9, 2018

This movie will make you laugh, cry and reflect. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2018

This is a boring and much too long movie...all in all, if you give any thought to how you spend your discretionary hours this, in my opinion, The Maid is not the movie for you.

| Jan 17, 2018

The Maid is lovely film, thoughtful, intelligent and deeply human. As a portrait of one individual struggling with the socio-economic forces that define her role and relationships, it very gently takes apart the forces that disallow equality.

| Aug 22, 2017

The Maid is a film that defies expectations; expect to feel ashamed of yourself.

| Oct 20, 2014

As played by Catalina Saavedra, she's a guarded, ruthless, but ultimately poignant character, and writer-director Sebastian Silva studies the levers of power inside the little household as if it were the Politburo.

| Mar 13, 2014

Beware the psycho servant in Chilean Upstairs/Downstairs tale!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2010

What might have been a condescending social-issue drama about oppressed servants or a shrill send-up of the ruling class instead becomes a carefully etched character study.

| Sep 10, 2010

Sits compellingly between genres.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2010

Sebastian Silva's film is very finely decorated by Catalina Saavedra's loyal but self-destructive servant.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2010

A perceptive, empathetic character piece.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2010

Sebastián Silva's second feature is an exceptional study of the emotional investment that domestics make in the families they serve.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2010