Review: Octavia Spencer stars in the horror film "Ma," which goes in all kinds of unexpected directions. It's weird, messy and compelling.

If your favorite scene in The Help was the part where Octavia Spencer made a racist eat her poo, you’re going to love Ma. Heaven knows I do. Octavia Spence...

Octavia Spencer plays the title character in this new horror movie.

Who knew Octavia Spencer would be the perfect actress to portray a 2019 version of Margaret White, the overbearing mother role that earned Piper Laurie an Os...

Tate Taylor's thriller might be about a group of party-hungry teens, but the adults steal the show.

Anyone who walks into a theater to see “Ma” knows exactly the kind of…

Top of the world for Ma? Check out Empire's review.

Octavia Spencer makes the camp high-school horror of Ma worth watching: EW review

Octavia Spencer plays a woman forming clingy friendships with teenagers in Tate Taylor's psycho-thriller 'Ma.'

Spencer plays against type in this new film that reunites her with the director of The Help  

Not, as its title might suggest, a salty comedy about an indomitable Dublin matriarch, Ma is an American horror film which at first seems mildly original but...

"The Help" director Tate Taylor's foray into horror proves he should stick to the tearjerkers.

Review: Mediocre effort held together with chewing gum and bloodied sticking plaster

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure “Ma” is the first movie in which Octavia Spencer plays someone who’s terrible at her job.

“Ma,” Spencer and Taylor’s fifth project together, should not be mistaken for being a contribution to the genre of black horror.

The films exhibit a tragic logic that dovetails with the real-life revelations of #MeToo, but neither is constructed with anything resembling the courageousn...

After a career often spent in roles of kind caretakers, Octavia Spencer sinks her teeth into the part of a woman who draws a group of teenagers into her base...

Did you know that the greatest single threat the world faces today is single, middle-aged women? I didn’t either. But the movies are dead certain they’re...

A psycho-revenge thriller from the director of “The Help”? Why not! Just don’t expect a coherent story line.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

There is a certain kind of horror movie in which every character involved is basically an asshole, and hello, let's talk about Ma. SPOILERS FOR MA FOLLOW Pra...

Octavia Spencer stars in this schlocky, enjoyable horror flick

On the surface, Mais seemingly just another entry into the generic horror/thriller category abouta seemingly good-hearted stranger who worms her way into the...

The thrills come extra cheap and late in Tate Taylor’s Ma, a horror movie torn between its campiness and compassion.

Oscar winner Octavia Spencer brings it, and how, in “Ma,” a real world horror tale blessed with a top-drawer cast and a grimly satisfying third act. But ...

Octavia Spencer does her powerful best to raise 'Ma' above the horror herd — too bad she’s fighting a losing battle. Peter Travers reviews.

Octavia Spencer is a lethal authority figure in the schlocky shocker 'Ma'

In our Ma review, we try to make heads or tails of this odd, character-driven horror movie that never quite comes together like it should.

"Ma" follows a lonely middle-aged woman who befriends a group of rambunctious teens.

High school can be hell. Between peer pressures and hormones, it's a hotbed for drama, and it's no wonder films about teenagers remain ripe for the big scree...

Director Tate Taylor relies on a few throwaway scenes involving the film’s only other black character to carry vague gestures toward racial politics withou...

It’s so close to being edgy, aware, and relevant.

Her "The Help" director Tate Taylor wants to go over the top while also dealing with a woman's trauma, and he can't nail the balance

Tate Taylor’s new Blumhouse vehicle is a lesson in why genre movies need style.

Playing an eccentric small-town stalker-pest as if she were a real human being, Octavia Spencer roots a formula flick in something creepy.

The Octavia Spencer–led slasher flick places the mammy archetype in a horror context, to mixed results.

Ma is a showcase for Octavia Spencer's ability to turn her typecasted traits into utterly disturbing obsession destabilization, but the film's less potent ge...