A really interesting film, with more than a little Jordan Peele in it.

| Apr 15, 2022

What this film wants to do is convey how all of this feels like a horror movie... It maintains that tone throughout.

| Mar 30, 2022

"Master" is a genre picture that works as well as it does because it's rooted in everyday horrors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2022

What’s amazing about this film is that the literal demons depicted in the movie are less scary than the things it shows that happen in the real world.

| Mar 26, 2022

It is not even remotely scary, and its story and lore are confusing and underdeveloped.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 21, 2022

Diallo utilises the visual language of horror... to express the terror of racism and the rot of its legacy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2022

What “Master” does exceedingly well – and it’s worth a look for this alone – is dramatize with a kind of bleak satirical scorn the slights and assumptions and diminutions that come with being a person of color in a complacent white milieu.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2022

Well-performed, especially by Regina Hall, and directed with real flair and intention by Mariama Diallo, Master transcends its two-dimensional opening to become a complex, character-driven horror with much on its mind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2022

Even if the final third goes off the rails, and it sure does, “Master” announces the arrival of a director with unmistakable talent.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2022

A series of interesting ideas fired willy-nilly at the screen does not a movie make.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2022

The characters dont get to define themselves much beyond whats frightening or oppressing them in this perfectly serviceable thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2022

Well observed moments are engulfed in a deluge of supernatural hokum that paradoxically makes “Master” much more mundane.

| Mar 18, 2022

Part of the horror is that, aside from a few supernatural goings on, nothing in "Master" seems like too far of a stretch.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 18, 2022

In Diallo’s compelling tale, turns out the scariest ghosts are not the ones that go bump in the night. They’re the ones that haunt a nation’s history.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2022

A worthy topic that is overshadowed by its messier elements.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2022

“Master” has its share of jump scares as well as the gaslighting feints of a thriller.

| Mar 17, 2022

Although Diallo makes some trenchant observations about diversity-equity-inclusion initiatives and cultural appropriation, she jams too many plot beats, characters and polemical points into the narrative for all of them to pay off satisfactorily.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2022

An arresting feature debut from Director Mariana Diallo, Master gingerly walks the tightrope between outright supernatural horror and a criticism of the enduring power of monied white privilege.

| Mar 16, 2022

“Master"... isn’t the kind of slick mashup “Get Out” has conditioned us to expect from smart Black horror. This is a messier, more grieving work.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2022

It could be that its material isn’t fully absorbed into the screenplay, but there is real claustrophobia and unease in each insidious microaggression.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2022