mother!
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: September 15, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 51 Critic Reviews
Positive:
36
Mixed:
14
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoSep 15, 2017
Your toleration of mother! will be determined by movie-going patience. Aronofsky is painting with some blistering broad strokes, but they’re just that – broad and undefined. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushE. Oliver WhitneySep 12, 2017
Love it, hate it, or stuck somewhere in between, it’s something you simply need to see to believe. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinSep 6, 2017
For all its feverish activity, Mother! feels static. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekSep 5, 2017
Mother! is ambitious and dorky, like a Hieronymus Bosch painting redone as swirl-art. It’s entertaining to watch, because it’s not easy to see where it’s going—though you might feel a little underwhelmed when you discover where it ends up. The main reason to keep watching is Lawrence, receptive and radiant. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 5, 2017
Its dread has no resonance; it’s a hermetically sealed creep-out that turns into a fake-trippy experience. By all means, go to mother! and enjoy its roller-coaster-of-weird exhibitionism. But be afraid, very afraid, only if you’re hoping to see a movie that’s as honestly disquieting as it is showy. Read full review
51
Paste MagazineWill LeitchSep 13, 2017
Aronofsky can be a moving, almost disorienting stylist, but he’s all blunt force trauma here. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneSep 18, 2017
Yet the movie’s grasp of experience feels tenuous, trippy, and, dare one say, adolescent; if you gave an extremely bright fifteen-year-old a bag of unfamiliar herbs to smoke, and forty million dollars or so to play with, Mother! would be the result. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrSep 14, 2017
With mother!, Aronofsky throws caution to the winds and delivers his most abstract cinematic experience yet. It’s also arguably his worst. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadaySep 14, 2017
Even Lawrence’s magnetic powers can’t keep Mother! from going off the rails, which at first occurs cumulatively, then in a mad rush during the film’s outlandish climax. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChristopher GraySep 13, 2017
If Black Swan was filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's fevered valentine to the artist's self-abnegating drive toward greatness, then Mother!, his loudest and most comprehensive work to date, is either a critique of or a doubling down on that impulse. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 13, 2017
The action and the scale of the acting are often more befitting an elaborate stage play than a film. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatySep 13, 2017
The title isn’t the only thing about the film that has an exclamation point; every scene comes with one – and also seems to be in blaring, buzzing neon. The movie doesn’t know when to stop. Read full review
50
The Film StageC.J. PrinceSep 11, 2017
By the end, mother! is easy to admire for its ambition, but even easier to laugh at for its execution. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonSep 14, 2017
When the film leaves the realm of the impolite or even criminal for something far more extreme, it achieves a level of excess that makes the whole enterprise increasingly cartoonish, rather than just awful. Read full review
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