"The Front Room" is a banal, watered-down version of "Rosemary's Baby"

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 25, 2025

In spite of its high blecch factor, it's kinda hard not to like The Front Room for being amusingly deranged.

| Jan 6, 2025

The Eggers brothers' The Front Room is certainly off-putting and carried by a great Kathryn Hunter performance, but is far too predictable.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 3, 2025

Professionally made, well-acted, and unfussy, this glossy horror movie still feels like it doesn't really have anything going on and is built from elements we've seen many times before.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2024

[The Front Room] has a certain grisly swagger.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2024

The Front Room is an entertaining, morbidly funny slice of perverse B-movie exploitation horror. In the best way, it feels like something Joan Crawford would have starred in the 60s.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2024

This is a film that just leaves you feeling grossed out, and not in the way that a horror film usually should.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2024

Kathryn Hunter elevates everything she’s in, which goes double for a film as limp and directionless as The Front Room, the directorial debut of Max and Sam Eggers.

| Oct 27, 2024

The Front Room is a specious, pregnancy-themed horror film with zero scares, no psychological nuance and a very juvenile understanding of pregnancy, parenthood, ageing and how people actually function in the world.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2024

Their film is careless, crass, and it prioritises empty scares and lopsided laughs over coherent storytelling.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 24, 2024

The Front Room is an m-e-double s and that makes me sad because I was so excited to see Brandy back in the genre.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 23, 2024

Expected twists never quite materialise, and decent turns from Brandy and Hunter can’t quite save a forgettable horror. Still, it might make you appreciate your mother-in-law.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 23, 2024

When you aren't buying the relationships being established in the first act, you've lost me. I couldn't connect with the story, performances, and character choices. Huge misfire.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 11, 2024

I wanted to enjoy this but outside of Kathryn Hunter's "go for broke" performance, there's nothing remotely entertaining or suspenseful about this film. There was a breakdown somewhere in the creative process on this...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 11, 2024

Not a horror movie but borders on being a horrible movie.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 26, 2024

The Front Room is a dreadfully dull drama pretending to be a suspenseful horror movie. There's nothing scary about this forgettable flop, which has repetitive scenes of Kathryn Hunter as an obnoxious and shrill elderly woman who speaks in tongues.

| Sep 20, 2024

The Front Room isn’t a proper takedown of religion and those who used to be sinners who have been somehow saved by a higher power

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 20, 2024

The Front Room is clearly aiming to be edgy, unclassifiable and very A24-ish, but in the end, it’s mostly confused and pointlessly mean.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2024

The Front Room was trumpeted as singer-actress Brandy’s return to horror, but even her star power can’t lift up this unsatisfying psychological thriller.

| Sep 18, 2024

Robert Eggers' baby bros (Sam and Max Eggers) first foray into directing is a basic Get Out clone, if it were called Get Out of My House.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2024