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SummaryEverything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda (Brandy) after her mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere.

The Front Room

Metascore
49
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Mixed or Average
4.4
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Metascore
49
23% Positive
5 Reviews
55% Mixed
12 Reviews
23% Negative
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Sep 5, 2024
80
Slashfilm
This is very likely going to be a crowd pleasing movie, one to hoot and holler about. Beneath all that hooting and hollering, though, lies a psychologically rich tale that I believe will reward multiple viewings.
Sep 5, 2024
70
Collider
Altogether, it's a solid dark comedy in the trappings of a psychological horror film.
User score
Mixed or Average
4.4
33% Positive
10 Ratings
23% Mixed
7 Ratings
43% Negative
13 Ratings
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Feb 24, 2025
5
Ralfbergs
It started out hopeful and I managed to watch it all so I gave it 4 but actually in the movie itself and how it ended I just felt like more it was lost time and could have been much better. Instead was just dumb in the end.
Oct 27, 2024
5
icotzabb
I wanted to hate this movie. Id heard bad things. But the film is so wild and unhinged and Brandy did a passable job. The actress playing the mother is a blast to watch. Throw in some not on purpose comedic moments.
Sep 5, 2024
60
The Guardian
The Front Room does capture one delicious, rich truth: hell hath no fury like a mother-in-law scorned.
Sep 5, 2024
50
The New York Times
The Front Room has its virtues, including the funereal production design, with its forlorn rooms and faded wallpaper. Yet from its goo to boos, the whole enterprise is so familiar and at times rote that it feels as though Sam and Max Eggers haven’t so much directed the movie as reverse-engineered it.
Oct 24, 2024
40
Empire
The Front Room features a remarkably funny performance from Kathryn Hunter as a mischievous mother-in-law, but its tale of lurking danger remains malformed.
Sep 6, 2024
38
Movie Nation
Co-writers/directors Sam and Max Eggers go for symbolic nightmares and simple toilet-accidents for shocks and wicked sneers that only Belinda sees to set us up for something more fraught, fundamental and final than their movie delivers.
Sep 5, 2024
25
San Francisco Chronicle
The Front Room becomes an exercise in psychological torture porn; it’s a movie you endure rather than enjoy.
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Dec 26, 2024
4
alanpotter17
Exercício estilístico dos Eaggers com a A24, confrontando uma supremacista idosa com um casal interracial, em arquétipos da maternidade que atravessa gerações e moral. Claro que a pegada meio cômica, ao estilo de "A sogra", não faz aprofundar os temas. Diverte pouco. Falha comocomédia, como terror, como sátira, ainda que conte com excelentes interpretações (a Kathryn Hunter está impagável), a execução é estranhamente fria e clichê. Parece que o estúdio está tendo dificuldades em encerrar a história, ou despiroca de vez ou concede algo muito convencional.
Jan 8, 2025
3
royalguy07
An insane, dedicated performance by the mother, but this is mostly just directionless and pointless. No clue what message or theme this was trying to get across.
Sep 8, 2024
2
Hankypankytanky
I literally created an account just saw this move is so bad. Only saving grace was brandy and cast, but even they couldn’t turn these brothers poop into gold.
Jan 6, 2025
1
imthenoob
Brandy is good; sadly, she is the only good thing about this painfully forgettable movie.
Sep 26, 2024
1
Qhasi
I only ha e one question: did Brandy even read the script before agreeing to appear in this film. This deserves a zero. I gave it a 1 because the cast tried, especially the creepy actress.
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  • A24
Sep 6, 2024
1 h 34 m
R
All hell moves in.
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