78
Metascore
19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasDenis and Testud, in a wondrous collaboration of a gifted director and equally gifted actress, succeed in making Christine a tragic figure.
- 90Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterThe movie avoids sensationalism. What it requires and what it delivers is performance.
- 80The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsDoesn't shy away from the social or psychological explanations of the Le Mans murders, but never comes down on one side or another.
- 80New Times (L.A.)Jean OppenheimerNew Times (L.A.)Jean OppenheimerThe film proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerSylvie Testud gives such a ferociously controlled performance that the messy murder seems like a necessary release.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe old saying, "It's hard to find good help nowadays" takes on a new meaning in Murderous Maids.
- 75Boston GlobeBoston GlobeMay ultimately be no more than the sum of its (body) parts, but it's still a ghastly service-industry horror story - a film to make you wonder what might be roiling beneath the surface of the placid young woman who hands you your Grande Latte every morning.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyDirector Jean-Pierre Denis doesn't explore psychological motives, which are, finally, unknowable. What he accomplishes in his chilling, unnerving film is a double portrait of two young women whose lives were as claustrophic, suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned.
- 70Chicago ReaderFred CamperChicago ReaderFred CamperJulie-Marie Parmentier is fetching as the vulnerable younger sister, and the duo generate considerable erotic tension; unfortunately Denis' detached and indifferent camera never gets inside the story, its characters, or its milieu.