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  • 2022
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Summary After an overdose nearly takes her life, Laura Birch (Jemima Rooper) escapes from the high-stakes pressure of the advertising world to return to her roots. Accepting an invitation home from her estranged mother (Kate Dickie), Laura hopes the time away in the secluded English village will help calm the demons raging inside of her. She soo...

Directed By: Ben Steiner

Written By: Ben Steiner

  • 2022
  • TV-MA
  • Hulu
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2022
  • TV-MA
  • Hulu
  • 1 h 25 m

Matriarch

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Summary After an overdose nearly takes her life, Laura Birch (Jemima Rooper) escapes from the high-stakes pressure of the advertising world to return to her roots. Accepting an invitation home from her estranged mother (Kate Dickie), Laura hopes the time away in the secluded English village will help calm the demons raging inside of her. She soo...

Directed By: Ben Steiner

Written By: Ben Steiner

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Oct 21, 2022
Just like the black ichor seeping into Laura, Matriarch saturates viewers’ senses until it pays off its many adumbrations with unexpected revelations.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
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Oct 21, 2022
Like Ari Aster’s similarly slippery “Hereditary,” Steiner’s film shrewdly shifts back and forth between the real physical threat of dark supernatural forces and the more elusive harm done by a lifetime of bad parenting.
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Oct 20, 2022
Matriarch opens by watching a nude figure descend into a pond of black muck, but the slog that follows in this derivative, tar-flow-paced thriller from Britain is strictly for the viewer.
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Production Company 20th Digital Studio, Sharp House
Release Date Oct 21, 2022
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating TV-MA
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