70
The Servant is for the most part strong dramatic fare, though the atmosphere and tension is not fully sustained to the end.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
Certainly difficult to define, this period piece messes with genres, power relationships and your head.
100
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Glaciers might be melting, the polar caps might be crumbling, but not even the passage of half a century has taken the frozen edge off this brilliantly icy film.
100
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It is a brilliant, subversive account of class relations and the changing times.
100
Time Out London by Tom Huddleston
It’s one of the most insightful films ever made about the British class system.
90
Village Voice by Zachary Wigon
Mixing techniques as surely as it mixes class (graceful dolly shots are placed side by side with the handheld photography), the picture's clever formalist juxtapositions evoke the hysterical confusion of a culture in upheaval.