Generating both laughs and blood, 'M3GAN' shows why both horror and comedy are still best enjoyed in a packed theater with a game audience.

Cheerfully dark social satire is the year’s first terrific movie ride.

After a much-hyped marketing campaign, the movie itself is actually pretty fun.

Allison Williams stars in Akela Cooper and James Wan's M3GAN, a demented and hilarious satire of technology today. Read our review here.

Allison Williams plays a robotics wiz who invents a doll that seems fake and real at the same time.

Films about killer robots show us such obvious and extreme dangers that we’ve allowed the slow creep of subtler but equally scary threats to our privacy.

Picture the ‘Mean Girls’ queen bee Regina George if someone had given her a knife and a death wish. And she was an android

Forget Chucky and Annabelle, there's a new spooky doll coming to play – and she's not messing around. 'M3GAN' is in UK cinemas now

If someone told me M3gan is in love with Cady, I'd believe it. Without even blinking, I'd know they are absolutely correct.

There are few things scarier than girls who know too much.

With echoes of Child's Play and The Omen, this new horror about a small, murderous android is camply entertaining but also properly chilling

Violet McGraw and Allison Williams star in this horror movie about a doll-like killer robot. You know better than I do if this one’s your cup of tea.

M3GAN, the new horror-comedy from director Gerard Johnstone, Malignant co-writer Akela Cooper, and producer James Wan, perfectly blurs the line between laughs and screams until it’s so much fun that genre doesn’t matter anymore. In theaters Jan. 6.

Cracking sci-fi shocker digs into the contemporary human psyche

This killer doll movie has some killer scenes.

Her gave us a female AI that gradually lost interest in her human user because he was so limited. It was a sad experience. Ex Machina gave us a female AI that gradually grew to hate her human user because he was so limiting. It was a frightening experience. But M3GAN gives us a female AI that doesn’t discard or hate her human user, because her whole raison d’etre is to take care of her. And despite its sad setup — a little girl loses her parents in a car crash — and a smattering of frightening moments, it is first and foremost a fun experience. Machine learning may one day be the death of us all, but we’re still far enough out from the Rise of the Machines to indulge a wry chuckle at the prospect. Pretty roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams) is a victim of her own genius: the “smart toy” she’s built — essentially, a pet that never dies and can talk — is getting dinged in the marketplace by a cheaper, dumber knockoff. Her boss wants her go lower, but that’s not how geniuses operate. She’s got something really special in mind, but then life dumps a just-orphaned niece in her lap, and the deadline is looming. But wait! What if her new invention is just what a grieving little girl needs? Someone to be with her, to console her…to protect her from the mean dog next door. There’s nary a surprise in sight plotwise (and while we’re at it, blessedly few jump scares); what’s unexpected is how human, and even funny, the story of a robot girl gone rogue manages to be. 2023.

Step aside Chucky and Annabelle: this wickedly nimble polymath is coming for the crown

A walking, talking, living doll turns murder machine in Universal’s latest horror

A girl's protective AI doll turns killer in James Wan and Akela Cooper's dark-comedy horror, directed by Gerard Johnstone. Read the Empire review.

M3GAN feels tailor-made for extremely-online audiences looking for a new camp-horror icon

In the end, 'M3GAN' leaves one wishing for an outrageousness in the film’s violence that matches M3GAN’s intensifying cruelty.

All hail Blumhouse and director Gerard Johnstone for bringing us a new murder doll, one that's built to rule them all.

Universal’s horror comedy M3gan — out January 6th — from director Gerard Johnstone is the rare viral sensation that actually manages to live up to the hype.

Not outwardly terrifying, director Gerard Johnstone’s sci-fi slasher features a lifelike AI doll named M3GAN, programmed to attach itself to a single child. In the case of Akela Cooper and James Wan’s story, M3GAN finds her child soulmate in Cady (Violet McGraw), a young girl recently orphaned by a fatal, parental car accident. The rest

A yassified Chucky for the iPad Kid generation

This fun horror film from producers Jason Blum and James Wan boasts a dancing and singing doll on a murder spree and Allison Williams as a roboticist.

This TikTok sensation is about to creep her way into your nightmares

Film critic Peter Travers shares his review of "M3gan."

A tech wiz bites off more than she can chew when her pint-sized toy creation forms a strong, malevolent bond with her young niece.

'M3GAN' is a solid satire of both the tech industry and of parenting in the age of spyware.

This won’t pop up on any top ten lists by the end of the year, but for a genre film released in a month typically reserved as a dumping ground for studios, this is all you could hope for.

The tongue-in-cheek tone is so consistent that M3gan is a hoot.

Richard Brody reviews “M3gan,” a dystopian science-fiction film, directed by Gerard Johnstone and starring Allison Wilson and Violet McGraw, about a killer robot.

A tiny robot wreaks murderous havoc in Blumhouse's madcap, endlessly memed horror comedy 'M3GAN.'

M3GAN Review: A robot doll plays and slays in a horror comedy that pulls all the right strings

Cheekily enjoyable chiller where a devastated girl seems saved by an eerily self-possessed robot companion – but all is not as it seems

A pleasantly nutty thriller about a crafty, high-end toy, “M3GAN” exploits a child’s grief for the greater good of the killer-doll genre. That may be enough for 100 minutes of your early January.The writer Philip K. Dick once asked: Do androids dream of electric sheep? M3GAN, which stands for “Model 3 Generative Android,” looks as […]

Don't judge this smart, provocative chiller by its first-weekend-of-the-year release