Strong performances highlight the scary (and funny) 'The Front Room'

By Linda Holmes,

Jordan Crucchiola, Liz Metzger, Rommel Wood, Jessica Reedy, Mike Katzif

Published September 10, 2024 at 9:09 AM EDT

Brandy Norwood in The Front Room. — Brandy Norwood in *The Front Room*.

Maybe you think you've seen every scary mother-in-law fiction has to offer — you absolutely haven't. In the new movie The Front Room, a pregnant woman (Brandy Norwood) allows her mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) to move in. In a film that's part creepy and part very darkly funny, the two women square off for control of the house and the child on the way.

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Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.

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