59
Metascore
9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Screen DailyNikki BaughanScreen DailyNikki BaughanThe film expertly blends satirical social commentary and disturbing horror tropes to shine a light on the appalling racial and economic divides that still shape the country 30 years after the end of apartheid.
- 75The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakThere’s some gnarly imagery that comes once, in Good Madam‘s second half, the supernatural takes over from the historical and characters find themselves falling into the trance of larger, systemic issues plaguing our world for millennia. But the beginning is just as tense and anxiety-inducing in its more normal sense of reality.
- 70Paste MagazineMatt DonatoPaste MagazineMatt DonatoThere’s nothing exceptionally freaky outside one or two practical effects of bodily implications, and yet Good Madam still finds nationally significant ways to summon societal fears.
- 70Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe movie doesn’t shy away from magic spells and arcane African blood rituals, but the real dark mojo that Bass is bringing so starkly to the big screen involves the cycles and privilege and exclusion that seems to persist through every attempt at exorcism.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe story has hints of Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of horror about it, and is clever enough to be well worth a look, no matter how many credited screenwriters it took to come up with it and polish into the production screenplay.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawGood Madam is an intriguing, atmospheric movie which doesn’t quite tie up all its sinister portents and implications in a satisfying ending. Yet there is something very unsettling in it.
- 12RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonRogerEbert.comOdie HendersonWhat I saw was a racially suspect disaster and another exploitation of Black pain for cheap, lazy thrills. Good Madam is a bad movie.