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

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

Glass makes a number of savvy directorial choices throughout Saint Maud, and the sharpest is to limit what we see, hear, and know to her heroine's point of view.

| May 3, 2021

Saint Maud registers as more technically accomplished than deeply felt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2021

I've seen Saint Maud twice and each time it found new ways to freak me out. Take the leap of faith.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 14, 2021

The steady, screw-tightening accumulation of crises making up "Saint Maud" indicate a fully formed talent behind the camera.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2021

More than that I cannot say, other than to recommend "Saint Maud" even if your tastes run the other direction from horror films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 11, 2021

What a debut.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 10, 2021

It's a genuine revelation, and the sort of holy terror that restores your faith in a genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2021

"Saint Maud" delivers shocks with confidence. The director is even better at creating subtle unease.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2021

In providing the jolts that Maud's terrifying actions and fantasies provoke rather than the taut and complex web of life that they wrench apart, the movie suggests less interest in Maud than in images of Maud which, as a result, feel nearly empty.

| Feb 8, 2021

One of the saving graces of Saint Maud -- in fact, its chief virtue -- is the disequilibrium one experiences watching her walk the line between mere disturbance and outright insanity.

| Feb 6, 2021

Maud's transformation throughout the film plays with many familiar genre elements -- religion, sexuality, and physical trauma -- in unexpected ways that elevates the film.

| Feb 5, 2021

Has the intensity of a conflagration burning wildly, self-destructively out of control.

| Feb 3, 2021

With "Saint Maud," Glass firmly establishes herself as a filmmaker to watch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 2, 2021

An ecstatically bloody affair that imagines the inner world of a young woman driven to violence by the voices both inside and outside her head.

| Jan 31, 2021

Thrilling, terrifying, and beautifully shot.

| Jan 30, 2021

Some of the obvious references are Carrie, Taxi Driver, and Repulsion, but it comes together into something that feels wholly itself.

| Jan 30, 2021

The clever script, written by Glass herself, is designed to keep the viewer guessing until the very last minute, and it's the foundation of the first great horror movie of the year.

| Jan 29, 2021

Saint Maud comes with the stamp of its creator and shivers with fresh possibilities.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 29, 2021