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mother!

Mother!

2017

Darren Aronofsky

Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer ...

6.3

29,397

Thriller. Drama. Horror A woman (Jennifer Lawrence) is taken by surprise when her husband (Javier Bardem) lets uninvited guests (Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer) in to stay at their home. As her husband's behaviour grows increasingly odd, she gets distressed and just wants everyone to leave, as more and more strange things occur.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] is dazzling on the surface, but what lies beneath? Maybe nothing (...) You’ve got a head-trip horror movie with something for everyone — except, perhaps, for those who want to emerge feeling more haunted than assaulted."	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A surrealist, symphonically berserk feast of filth (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"Scorchingly brilliant (...) A psychological head trip so extreme it should carry a health warning (...) 'mother!' is something truly magnificent"	POS
United States	Ben Croll IndieWire	"Aronofsky’s audacious and rich cinematic allegory is his most daring film yet (...) It does not disappoint."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] both pulls you in with its intriguing central dramatic situation and pushes you out with some mightily far-fetched plot contrivances (...) There’s certainly no faulting the actors (...) Bardem is dominant"	NEU
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A devouring and restless experience (...) This is as formally provocative as it is thematically insistent, draped in horror tropes and religious overtones (...) An original, strikingly unconventional piece"	POS
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Time	"It tries so desperately to be crazy and disturbing that all we can see is the effort made and the money spent. No wonder there’s an exclamation mark in its title. Aronofsky just doesn’t know when to quit."	NEG
United States	David Edelstein Vulture	"'Mother!' Is a second-rate, self-aggrandizing tour de force. (...) Most of the dialogue and effects are clunky, repetitive, second-rate. A minute or so of David Lynch’s latest 'Twin Peaks' series has more irrational menace. For all its feverish activity, 'Mother!' feels static."	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"A hallucination that's also an angry cry about the state of this world, but most importantly, a cinematic experience of unique proportions."	POS
United Kingdom	David Sexton London Evening Standard	"Jennifer Lawrence's honesty casts a spell on this scary, arty story (...) 'Mother!' is filmed with loving oppressiveness, only using three basic, handheld camera shots (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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