{"id":2201563,"date":"2025-12-16T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2201563"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:32:42","slug":"the-housemaid-review-sydney-sweeney-and-amanda-seyfried-in-a-twisted-domestic-thriller-thats-over-the-top-and-clever-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-housemaid-review-sydney-sweeney-and-amanda-seyfried-in-a-twisted-domestic-thriller-thats-over-the-top-and-clever-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Housemaid\u2019 Review: Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried in a Twisted Domestic Thriller That\u2019s Over-the-Top and Clever About It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe Housemaid<\/a>,\u201d a screw-tightening domestic thriller, is nothing more (or less) than a garishly fun and effective piece of postfeminist pulp. Directed by Paul Feig<\/a>, from a script (by Rebecca Sonnenshine<\/a>) based on Freida McFadden<\/a>\u2019s hugely popular 2022 novel, the film goes right over-the-top, but it does so in a way that\u2019s unusually clever and knowing. And as a sign of how movies are changing now, inching ever closer to fantasy over reality (even when they present themselves as taking place in \u201cthe real world\u201d), \u201cThe Housemaid<\/a>\u201d almost feels like it could be a bit of a landmark.<\/p>\n

A few decades ago, a movie like this one would have been about a deceptively innocent housemaid who gets hired by a pampered princess of a wife and mother. The housemaid, in that movie, would start off as nice, then begin to toy with situations in a sinister way, only to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Housemaid,\u201d a screw-tightening domestic thriller, is nothing more (or less) than a garishly fun and effective piece of postfeminist pulp. Directed by Paul Feig, from a script (by Rebecca Sonnenshine) based on Freida McFadden\u2019s hugely popular 2022 novel, the film goes right over-the-top, but it does so in a way that\u2019s unusually clever and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2201564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2201563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018The-Housemaid-Review-Sydney-Sweeney-and-Amanda-Seyfried-in-a.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201565,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201563\/revisions\/2201565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}