Saint Maud combines traditional horror elements with mordant social observation.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 16, 2025

There’s an atmosphere of being witness to something otherworldly in Glass’ intimate depiction of one person’s religious mania getting the better of them

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

In Saint Maud, post-traumatic stress disorder is not told, it is felt.

| Mar 4, 2024

The many contrasts probed in Saint Maud — good and evil, belief and atheism, celibacy and liberation — are starkly compared and contrasted in the differences between Maud and Amanda.

| Jul 28, 2023

SAINT MAUD LIVED UP TO EVERYTHING I HEARD ABOUT AND MORE! One of my favorite A24 films from the past few years and one that will stick inside my heart, soul, and mind for years to come. Incredible breakthrough performance as well

| Jul 26, 2023

Its strong point lies in the atmospheres that evoke, through religious symbolism, the suffering and psychological abyss of the protagonist, but on the surface it simmers and lacks something that is frightening. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 8, 2023

Saint Maud is an unsettling, shocking ride that journeys into the mind of possession in an untraditional fashion. It will leave cinephiles questioning their ideas of faith and one’s life purpose.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Jan 31, 2023

Similar to the voice in the head of Saint Maud that guides her, there is a new voice in British horror that will cause people to stand up and pay attention. That voice is Rose Glass. Whose debut feature is a bone-chilling masterpiece.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 11, 2022

The sort of horror that makes you feel indescribably uneasy for quite a while after.

| Oct 17, 2022

It is an interesting film, a promising one, and in fits and starts a satisfying one, but it never quite shakes the sense that it is merely good when it should be great.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 12, 2022

By hyper-focusing the film on one solitary individual amid a spiritual reckoning, [director Rose] Glass uses a personalized story to comment on humanity's idea of faith and devotion. It's chilling, moody, and upsetting.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 7, 2022

What I appreciate about Glass' approach is how she leaves room for interpretation, and no matter which way you see the events as they unfold, they remain unsettling.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 17, 2022

Chilling in its depiction of religious fanaticism and the lengths one will go to for redemption, Saint Maud is one of the most assured horror debuts in recent memory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2022

[One of] the best horror films in recent years... a fable about the danger of inhabiting false realities. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 13, 2021

... begins to fall apart in its lack of commitment... Like too many films destined for awards contention... a prime example of needing a denouement that is strikingly absent.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2021

The movie eerily reflects her state of mind with its confident, unwavering tone, teetering just on the edge of realism, drawn toward nightmarish longing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 27, 2021

Disaster seems inevitable, but what makes Saint Maud so nail-bitingly tense is that it's impossible to guess the form in which it'll come...

| Aug 11, 2021

Clark gives a stunning performance, reminiscent of Sissy Spacek in Carrie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2021

What is more horrifying: the existence of God or His absence?

| Jun 29, 2021

St. Maud marks a stunning feature film debut for writer-director Rose Glass. Understated yet opulent, measured, and intensely creepy, it's a tour de force in balancing uncomfortable levels of tension and suspense with deep pathos.

| May 20, 2021