It makes harrowing, provocative viewing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2025

Mass is an experiment in real-time healing and not a failed one. It asks us, how are we supposed to heal? Is there a right or a wrong way?

| Original Score: B | Jun 13, 2024

Fran Kranz nailed it with his directorial debut by stripping back the filmmaking and focusing solely on the screenplay and the four brilliant actors he had in this single room.

| Mar 1, 2024

Yes, it is stagey. It is basically in one location. But the screenplay and simple camerawork draw you in and brings you into horrific pain.

| Feb 24, 2024

Particularly when individuals either find themselves or voluntarily choose to be separate from the rest of the family, character purposes and objectives present themselves. As in Mass, these purposes and objectives offer the key to achieving clarity.

| Oct 4, 2023

MASS is an ASTOUNDING, RAW, HEARTSHATTERING, & EMOTIONAL Movie. Incredibly written/directed by Kranz, but MASS is a performance driven movie. Isaacs & Birney are EXCELLENT.

| Jul 26, 2023

The cast drains every single ounce of emotion within the viewers, transforming a tiny little room with impactful mise-en-scène that tells its own story into an extremely tense, heart-wrenching, almost unbreathable environment.

| Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2023

All four members of the ensemble cast are stellar in their roles and the performances they deliver, with each one having at least one moment that will prove to you how incredible they all are.

| Jul 19, 2023

Playing out in virtual real time and essentially taking place in a single location, it may not look like much, but it’s an immersive, emotional watch that offers up an acting masterclass from a magnificent and well-cast quartet.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 9, 2022

A catharsis of four cylinders that traverses torturous paths from which anger, impotence and sorrow try to find a way through, or at least, a little light. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 8, 2022

... Places an almost sacred value on the cathartic power of dialogue. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2022

A powerful drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2022

While engaging to watch because of the acting, Mass is a poorly constructed, exhausting look at the grieving process and the difficulty found in trying to move on from an unspeakable, unjust tragedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 10, 2022

"At its most searing, 'Mass' suggests that talking your way through the thorniest thickets of tragedy wont be enough to find answers, and its to the first-time filmmakers credit that this comes across not as a lament, but as a place of clarity."

| Feb 21, 2022

Mass truly breaks any boundaries and is one of a few films that delve into another side of the story in this scenario. The film is a very powerful depiction of loss, forgiveness, and the coming together of two sides.

| Original Score: A | Feb 11, 2022

Out-of-the-box, superlative-and-superior...

| Feb 10, 2022

A fictional story that proves how open-hearted conversation can lead to healing, even after a terrible tragedy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 7, 2022

Unfolding like a play in real time with a limited cast and single setting, this contained drama is lifted by its remarkably realistic tone.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 27, 2022

Isaacs is especially good as a devastated father looking for answers to questions he doesn't know how to ask.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2022

Kranz's first film as a writer-director is nobody's idea of a fun night in, but sharp writing and four career-best performances make for a haunting and refreshingly grown-up drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2022