Mother's Day
Open Road Films (II) | Release Date: April 29, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
18
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
2
Negative:
26
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 28, 2016
The overall aura is kind of ... welcoming. It’s impossible to take seriously, but easy to take. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaApr 28, 2016
Perhaps because the bar was set so low, Mother’s Day turns out to be surprisingly watchable. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerApr 28, 2016
Mother’s Day is a concocted market-driven holiday, and so is this M&M’s-obsessed movie – candy for the sweet-toothed among us. Read full review
40
Total FilmKen McIntyreJun 9, 2016
There is less depth to this film than a petrol station greeting card, but it’s essentially harmless. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldApr 28, 2016
It’s a lazy movie that fades from memory the instant the credits start to roll; a blandly pretty cog in a studio wheel. Moms deserve better. So do moviegoers. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 27, 2016
An ensemble holiday comedy packed with all the sappy sentimentality and mawkish manipulation that only the old master, Garry Marshall would dare give it. Read full review
33
ConsequenceNico LangMay 3, 2016
The film’s script is designed to constantly flatter the sensibilities of its target audience, which is a nice enough goal, but it never seems to reflect the way that people actually speak, think, or behave. At best it’s corny, and at its worst it’s actively offensive. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMichael NordineMay 5, 2016
By far the highest concentration of actual humor comes during the blooper reel over the end credits; free of the script’s saccharine constraints, the performers immediately demonstrate their chops. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschApr 28, 2016
Mother’s Day is bad from the start, and it doesn't get better. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenApr 27, 2016
Mother’s Day, the movie, feels as contrived and inauthentic as the holiday itself. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversApr 29, 2016
Director Garry Marshall is a menace. He keeps killing holidays with all-star comedies in which a laugh would die of loneliness. Read full review
25
USA TodayBrian TruittApr 28, 2016
May boast a star-studded cast but it’s a spectacular dud on every other level with tonal whiplash, a little casual racism played for jokes and a script seemingly pulled from Hallmark cards rejected for being too hokey. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklySamantha HighfillApr 28, 2016
If you love your mother, do not make her see this movie. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerMolly EichelApr 28, 2016
A piece of schlock from Garry Marshall. Read full review
25
New York PostSara StewartApr 28, 2016
The cinematic equivalent of a paper plate with macaroni and glitter haphazardly glued onto it, Mother’s Day is a film only its creators could love (and even they must be having some misgivings). Read full review
25
Boston GlobePeter KeoughApr 28, 2016
It’s like a nightmare in which you are trapped in an endless Kmart aisle of horrible holiday cards. Read full review
25
Washington PostJen ChaneyApr 28, 2016
Despite an army of appealing actors in its large ensemble cast, the rom-com Mother’s Day is startlingly unappealing. Clumsily edited and culturally tone deaf, it’s more obsessed with the titular holiday than even most mothers would find reasonable. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshApr 28, 2016
Mother's Day is a total mess, but what's truly offensive is that they didn't even try to make this cynical, post-Sunday brunch cash grab even remotely watchable. Your mom deserves so much better this Mother's Day. Go see "The Meddler" instead. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Apr 28, 2016
A Mother’s Day movie full of flat jokes, reheated clichés and two hours spent staring at your watch. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternApr 28, 2016
You can survive this comedy, which was directed by Garry Marshall and written by too many people to shame by naming, but only if you’re immune to febrile calculation complicated by chronic ineptitude. Read full review
20
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeApr 28, 2016
The film constantly reveals itself as having no idea how human beings speak or behave. Read full review
16
The PlaylistKimber MyersApr 29, 2016
Mother’s Day is the cinematic equivalent of spilling boiling hot coffee on your mother when you bring her burnt toast for breakfast in bed. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerApr 28, 2016
Aniston is bad here, but she’s not alone. Marshall allows everyone in the movie to either play to their worst instincts or avert their eyes while skipping through the wreckage. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiApr 28, 2016
None of the actors are able to find a way to rise above the material, instead just plowing through in the broadest manner possible while trying not to look too obviously embarrassed. Read full review
10
ScreenCrushMatt SingerMay 3, 2016
As a comedy, this is an unmitigated disaster. As a fever dream of nonsensical non sequiturs, it might be a secret masterpiece. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangApr 28, 2016
From awkward start to merciful finish, Mother's Day is a grim, listless affair that may leave you pining for the relative pep and coherence of its predecessors (both of which were scripted by Katherine Fugate), or at least a few of their incidental pleasures. Read full review
10
The New York TimesGlenn KennyApr 28, 2016
The movie, a goopy, glossy mess with 10 times more respect for contrived sentimentality than for film grammar, is bereft of genuinely amusing jokes — Mr. Marshall really had some nerve naming his autobiography “Wake Me When It’s Funny.” Read full review
0
IndieWireDavid EhrlichApr 28, 2016
Lifeless, ugly, and vaguely evil in its gross attempt to offer something for everyone, Mother's Day doesn't feel like a movie so much as it does a cinematic adaptation of Walmart. Read full review
0
VarietyAndrew BarkerApr 28, 2016
Atrociously written, begrudgingly acted, haphazardly assembled and never more backward than when it thinks it’s being progressive. Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 28, 2016
Nothing could have prepared us for the offensively stupid, shamelessly manipulative, ridiculously predictable and hopelessly dated crapfest that is Mother’s Day. Read full review
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