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 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

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

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

Sebastián Silva's film is an unexpected combination: a gripping psychological thriller, and also a poignant human drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2010

An extremely sharp portrayal of a complex family and individual dynamic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2010

A tart, thoroughly engaging and often suspenseful mixture of psychodrama and social satire...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2010

Deadpan, handheld technique allows director Sebastián Silva to mine mundane situations for subtle hazard but also to take his story in unexpected directions, initial reticence preserving the potential for surprise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2010

Saavedra's performance as Raquel is what matters, glittering with the hard sparkle of anthracite.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2010

As unlikable -- and unstable -- as the character is, Saavedra finds a way for the audience to care about Raquel deeply and even to root for her to come out on top with her childish evil plots.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2010

The Maid is an intriguing psychological study that, more or less, leaves out the psychology and presents us with surface behavior.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2010

Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes unsettling, and always engrossing, The Maid is a domestic drama about the gulf that exists at impossibly close quarters between the worlds of upstairs and downstairs, the worlds of employer and household servant,

| Jan 15, 2010

Writer/director Sebastian Silva wisely focuses on character instead of caricature and has crafted a film that is surprisingly moving by the time it reaches its bittersweet final act.

| Dec 7, 2009

Fun for a while but increasingly tedious...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 3, 2009

It's tough and unsentimental, with a documentary aesthetic that belies the craft of the calibrated tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 3, 2009

The Maid is a small film but very sure, and extremely well-acted.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 3, 2009

With a few brushstrokes, Sebastian Silva communicates the complicated social and moral dynamic involved in having a live-in maid.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 12, 2009

Silva expertly maintains the tension, asking the audience to interpret Raquel's bizarro behavior. His diagnosis is a pleasant surprise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2009

The tension doesn't just derive from wondering where the story's going to go but to which genre this movie even belongs. Are we in a horror film or a humanist drama? Will Raquel burst into tears or break out the knives?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2009