mother! (2017) | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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A young woman spends her days renovating the Victorian mansion that she lives in with her husband in the countryside. When a stranger knocks on the door one night, he becomes an unexpected guest in their home. Later, his wife and two children also arrive to make themselves welcome. Terror soon strikes when the beleaguered wife tries to figure out why her husband is so seemingly friendly and accommodating to everyone but her.

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There's no denying that mother! is the thought-provoking product of a singularly ambitious artistic vision, though it may be too unwieldy for mainstream tastes.

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Dahlia Balcazar

Bitch Media

Mother! is what happens when a dude has an idea he thinks is brilliant and no one checks him on it.

Mar 1, 2021

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Michael Sragow

Film Comment Magazine

[Darren] Aronofsky wants mother! to have the intensity and inner logic of a sweaty nightmare. But it's a fake cinematic fever dream-the kind made by a director so self-conscious that he's always checking his own temperature.

Mar 8, 2018

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

Metro Newspaper (UK)

Ultimately, you may be left pondering not so much the allegory as to why [Darren] Aronofsky would want to push not just his audience but his girlfriend through such an extreme wringer.

Rated: 5/5

Oct 11, 2017

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Diana Tuova

Spotlight on Film

Aronofsky "recycles" others' and, ironically, his own previous film ideas, resulting in Mother! appearing an unoriginal horror concoction, an uncomfortable reminder of other, much better films.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 2, 2024

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Clayton Schuster

Vague Visages

If mother! lacks the refinement of a manifesto for a new breed of movie theater flick, it makes up for it in the audacity to be unique.

Dec 6, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Once movies leave their creators’ hands they often become their own thing. “mother!” benefits from that truth. While Aronofsky has a pointed personal meaning behind it, what you bring to the film will help define it for you.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 24, 2022

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Ian Y Not a horror film. And not a good film.. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/21/24 Full Review Lisa S The writer and director owe me 2 hours of life back. This was the most ridiculous, bizarre, and disgusting movie I've ever watched. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/03/24 Full Review Jay A Felt like Shakespere mixed with a Utopian dreamlike nightmare. The longer you think about it, the higher the rating goes. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/29/24 Full Review Michael K Literally the worst movie I've ever watched. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/28/24 Full Review Ulises A The closest thing to a nightmare that I have experienced in a movie. Absurd and suffocating. It reminds me of Kafka’s The Trial. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/25/24 Full Review Audience Member Well edited and produced, however most people will not understand Darren Arnofsky's weird style of storytelling. I mean come on, if you've seen Requiem For A Dream then you know how weird his movies can get. Mother! was exactly that, weird... You never know what is reality and what is fantasy. Even until the very last scene. I will say this, you won't fall asleep because the movie is just so out there you are constantly trying to figure out what is going on... Only to finish the movie and still not know what the heck just happened or why lol Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/20/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Darren Aronofsky Director Jennifer Lawrence Mother Javier Bardem Him Ed Harris Man Michelle Pfeiffer Woman Domhnall Gleeson Oldest Son

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