mother!
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A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
What critics thought
Aronofsky's allegorical nightmare split critics sharply: admirers saw a fearless, visionary provocation steeped in biblical imagery and anchored by Lawrence's performance, while detractors found it a self-indulgent, meaning-hungry exercise whose ambitions collapse under the weight of their own excess. Audiences were even harsher than the skeptical critics, though the film has since accumulated a passionate defender's gallery.
“Darren Aronofsky's toweringly outrageous film leaves no gob unsmacked. It is an event-movie detonation, a phantasmagorical horror and black-comic nightmare that jams the narcosis needle right into your abdomen.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“Awash in both religious and contemporary political imagery, Darren Aronofsky's allusive film opens itself to a number of allegorical readings, but it also works as a straight-ahead head rush.”
Ben Croll·IndieWire
“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.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“Darren Aronofsky's Mother! is Rosemary's Baby amped up into a fugue state of self-indulgent solipsism. He's an artist. And he really wants you to know that he's been thinking a lot about what that means. Unfortunately, his gaze is so deep into his own navel that it's just exasperating.”
Chris Nashawaty·Entertainment Weekly
“Nothing about Mother! makes one lick of sense as Darren Aronofsky's corny vision of madness turns more hilarious than scary. With so much crap around to clog the drain, I hesitate to label it the 'Worst movie of the year' when 'Worst movie of the century' fits it even better.”
Rex Reed·The New York Observer
Genres
Horror, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorDarren Aronofsky
StarringJennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brian Gleeson
ComposerJóhann Jóhannsson
mother!
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
What critics thought
Aronofsky's allegorical nightmare split critics sharply: admirers saw a fearless, visionary provocation steeped in biblical imagery and anchored by Lawrence's performance, while detractors found it a self-indulgent, meaning-hungry exercise whose ambitions collapse under the weight of their own excess. Audiences were even harsher than the skeptical critics, though the film has since accumulated a passionate defender's gallery.
“Darren Aronofsky's toweringly outrageous film leaves no gob unsmacked. It is an event-movie detonation, a phantasmagorical horror and black-comic nightmare that jams the narcosis needle right into your abdomen.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“Awash in both religious and contemporary political imagery, Darren Aronofsky's allusive film opens itself to a number of allegorical readings, but it also works as a straight-ahead head rush.”
Ben Croll·IndieWire
“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.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
“Darren Aronofsky's Mother! is Rosemary's Baby amped up into a fugue state of self-indulgent solipsism. He's an artist. And he really wants you to know that he's been thinking a lot about what that means. Unfortunately, his gaze is so deep into his own navel that it's just exasperating.”
Chris Nashawaty·Entertainment Weekly
“Nothing about Mother! makes one lick of sense as Darren Aronofsky's corny vision of madness turns more hilarious than scary. With so much crap around to clog the drain, I hesitate to label it the 'Worst movie of the year' when 'Worst movie of the century' fits it even better.”
Rex Reed·The New York Observer
Genres
Horror, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorDarren Aronofsky
StarringJennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brian Gleeson
ComposerJóhann Jóhannsson
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