"Master," on Amazon Prime, combines horror, race, and campus life. Ancaster College is the setting of Mariama Diallo’s debut feature, and we're told the fi...

The Oscars co-host stars as the first Black master, responsible for the well-being of the residence building’s students, at an elite liberal arts college.

Regina Hall stars in campus thriller from first-time writer-director Mariama Diallo, streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Regina Hall, Zoe Renee and Amber Gray experience racism on an American college campus in Mariama Diallo's horror. Read the Empire review.

When a fancy university is built in the shadow of the Salem witch trials, old habits die hard

Regina Hall stars in Mariama Diallo’s debut feature about a trio of Black women surviving their fall semester at a prestigious, historically white college.

Three women try to survive a historic New England university in a horror film that evokes "Candyman" and "The Shining" alike.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Tim Cogshell, Lael Loewenstein and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand p...

...unsettles in pointedly insidious ways.

Regina Hall stars in this horror thriller by Mariama Diallo about a Black professor and new Black student at an exclusive New England university.

Regina Hall stars as a college professor beset by malevolent forces in Mariama Diallo’s misjudged debut feature.

Mariama Diallo’s first feature uses horror-genre devices to reveal the ambient racism pervading American life.

Regina Hall anchors this horror movie debut from Mariama Diallo, set on a New England college campus.

Mariama Diallo’s exciting horror debut makes campus conversations as fraught as a centuries-old witch’s curse

Master takes its inspiration from Jordan Peele’s 2017feature, Get Out, which used horror as a framework for a deeperexamination of systemic racism, but the...

Mariama Diallo’s Master does not work as a horror movie.

Mood and message are paramount in Amazon Studios’ “Master,” a tale of institutional racism masquerading as a horror-on-campus thriller, instead of the ...

A traditional American college is the setting for Mariama Diallo's confident blend of social commentary and horror

Let's start here: Master, written and directed by Mariama Diallo, is a film with ambitious scope and intention. That it does not quite succeed in its endeavo...

★★☆☆☆A series of interesting ideas fired willy-nilly at the screen does not a movie make. This debut horror feature from the writer-director Mariam...

First time writer-director Mariama Diallo turns historical sins into the stuff of horror

Pixar strikes again, Mark Rylance rules, and Regina Hall takes on white academia.

Led by a daring Regina Hall, Mariama Diallo’s impressive debut has impact, though it doesn’t always sustain its discipline.