Ma

Octavia Spencer Serves Up Liquor, Terror and a Killer Performance

"Ma," a clammy, sloppy, sometimes funny thriller about an enabler of underage drinking, could and maybe should have been advertised as "from the director of 'The Help' and the producer of 'Get Out.'" The cognitive dissonance of seeing those two titles in one phrase is pretty good preparation for the crossed signals and jammed circuits that make this movie interesting. Which isn't the same as good, exactly. The director (Tate Taylor) and the screenwriter (Scotty Landes) take a premise with all kinds of potential - a middle-aged woman first befriends and then terrorizes a bunch of teenagers - and find various ways to mess it up, while also delivering a few jolts and laughs along the way. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (4783 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 29 maggio 2019