[An] engrossing narrative feature debut by actor-turned-director Lila Avilés.

| Mar 17, 2020

How the film counters its protagonist's ambitions makes for an alternately bleak and reverent experience, leaving us with an understanding of what "women's work" really means.

| Feb 25, 2020

This is a very quiet and understated observational drama. It's not just quiet, but patient... It's also very compassionate.

| Oct 1, 2019

This is brilliantly confident film-making.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2019

This wry, delicately austere debut from Mexican theatre director Lila Avilés goes one step further. To quote a famous 온라인카지노추천 sitcom line: "I don't speak maid." With Avilés's help, we're taught a new language.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2019

No trace of the literary or theatrical remains in Avilés's long takes and snatched, blank dialogue. The picture wraps a whole world around us.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 26, 2019

Lila Avilés, making a remarkable feature debut, brings us a study of work that has an exacting purity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2019

It's a fabulous piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2019

An eerily atmospheric, poignant, disquieting movie about 21st-century luxury and the invisible servant class required to maintain it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2019

Avilés's disconcerting film takes us from the starched suites to the service lifts, laundries and back corridors hidden from view.

| Jul 24, 2019

Maybe lacks for a killer blow, but Avilés and star Gabriela Cartol are worth keeping an eye on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2019

The ins and outs of hotel work take on an uncanny resonance in Lila Avilés's The Chambermaid, a precisely scaled debut feature showcasing the writer/director's natural filmmaking talents from the jump.

| Jul 15, 2019

"The Chambermaid" is empathy cinema but hardly miserablist in its shape.

| Jul 5, 2019

[An] incredibly patient and empathetic film...

| Jun 28, 2019

Measured in its pacing but never stagnant, The Chambermaid quietly fleshes out Eve's subconscious with actions rather than words.

| Jun 26, 2019

A painfully astute observational drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 26, 2019

After you've seen it, the world looks different.

| Jun 25, 2019

Eve is one of the most fully and forcefully crafted characters I have seen on screen in some time.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 23, 2019

The Chambermaid's quietness, subtlety and modesty of style always keep it dramatically engaging.

| Jun 17, 2019

Lila Avilés's film reserves the possibility of flirtations with disaster to turn into acts of emancipation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2019