M3GAN rollicks along with all the slickness and shocks you’d expect from a film produced by Insidious’s James Wan. It always keeps you in on the joke -- and it’s a killer joke.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2023

I love this movie so much, and had the absolute best time.

| Jan 18, 2023

The ending is predictable, as it is on a roller coaster, but it's a thrilling ride all the same. For Wan's Atomic Monster Productions and Blumhouse Productions it may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

| Jan 17, 2023

M3gan is an enjoyable horror-lite romp: knowing, amusing, but not particularly scary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2023

What really gives M3GAN resonance are the connections with our addiction, as both children and adults, to electronic hand-held devices.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2023

This won't pop up on any top ten lists by the end of the year, but for a genre film released in a month typically reserved as a dumping ground for studios, this is all you could hope for.

| Jan 14, 2023

Machine learning may one day be the death of us all, but we’re still far enough out from the Rise of the Machines to indulge a wry chuckle at the prospect.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 13, 2023

M3GAN may have silly and predictable moments, but its status as a queer/feminist classic is assured.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2023

... It is hilarious, then horrifying, in the space of a breath and that is what we’re here for!

| Jan 13, 2023

The filmmakers clearly intended this to be a goofy rollercoaster ride, so “M3GAN” is a success.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 12, 2023

There are countless creepy dolls in horror movies, but few who combine creepiness with glamour as successfully as the anti-heroine of Gerard Johnstone’s enjoyably tongue-in-cheek M3GAN.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 12, 2023

Pacing issues aside, a Friday night crowdpleaser.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2023

While M3GAN is more like Chucky than it is Ex Machina, there is still a lot to love about this hugely enjoyable comedy horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 12, 2023

A yassified Chucky for the iPad Kid generation. Yes, it’s very memeable, but don’t let that color your perception too much.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 12, 2023

M3gan is a horror movie about a murderous, rogue AI, but it’s also an hour-and-30-minute camp meditation about how a pretty white girl best friend can be one of the most terrifying things in American life.

| Jan 12, 2023

There’s a different, far more substantial movie lurking within, yet the virtues of efficiency, clarity, surprise, and wit that enliven the one that’s actually onscreen leave its merely implied substance tantalizingly unformed.

| Jan 11, 2023

Once the moral parameters have been established, the film whips along with guilty-pleasure panache. M3gan, like all the great android anti-heroines, from Maria in Metropolis to Ava in Ex Machina, eventually goes wrong.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2023

M3GAN is essentially the anti-heroine of a catnip horror film which tips far more towards the “campy fun” end of the spectrum than the raw terror end.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2023

Yes, Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN is pulled from January’s bucket of mostly low-budget pablum, but it’s cheeky and knowing enough to stand out from the slop.

| Jan 9, 2023

It’s built to meme, filled with bonkers images, memorable one-liners and welcome winks. The filmmakers know exactly what they’re doing, and the audience has a blast.

| Jan 9, 2023