Mother!: reviews

What the critics say average 7.4 from 15 outlets

• 10 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem are tremendously operatic as the leads and it is great to welcome Michelle Pfeiffer back to the big screen in a pleasingly cruel supporting role. Read
• 10 Time OutJoshua Rothkopf In an intensely personal way, 'Mother!' is an apology to anyone who's ever felt eaten alive by love at its most selfish. Read
• 9.5 The PlaylistJessica Kiang 'mother!' is something truly magnificent, the kind of visceral trash-arthouse experience that comes along very rarely. Read
• 9.0 IndiewireBen Croll At one point the film engages in a brazen act of cannibalism, forcing us to confront specific religious dogma. Read
• 8.0 EmpireDan Jolin A difficult film and one that's likely to offend in some ways. But as an elliptical, dream-logic infused visual poem, it certainly leaves a searing impression. Read
• 8.0 El MundoLuis Martínez 'Mother!' is the opposite of this bombastic and even optimistic work on the void, although it shares ambition, delirium and, of course, the weight of the unseen. Read
• 8.0 The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy There?s certainly no faulting the actors, who, with the exception of the excellent and always audience-engaging Lawrence, all trigger a significant measure of creepiness. Read
• 7.5 Entertainment WeeklyChris Nasahwaty Anyone who?s seen Roman Polanski?s 1968 chiller masterpiece 'Rosemary?s Baby' will immediately get a whiff of déjà-vu watching mother! unfold. Read
• 7.5 VarietyOwen Gleiberman But it also makes it a movie that?s about everything and nothing. Read
• 7.0 The WrapSteve Pond For its combination of ambition and audacity, this is a glorious piece of cinematic insanity. Read
• 7.0 ColliderBrian Formo 'mother!' isn?t quite as fascinating as it thinks it is, and the hellish setting perhaps goes too far, but it is relentless and it sure is something that needs to be experienced. Read
• 6.0 Screen CrushE. Oliver Whitney Love it, hate it, or stuck somewhere in between, it?s something you simply need to see to believe. Read
• 6.0 FotogramasManu Yáñez Then, as the delirium begins to take hold of the film, it is evident that Aronofsky interprets cinema as that blank wall, a territory without pre-established norms on which to "create" with the anarchic freedom of an all-powerful demiurge. Read
• 4.0 VultureDavid Edelstein It puts Jennifer Lawrence through the mill for no purpose except nurturing a strain of masochism of which she has been blessedly free. Read
• 4.0 TimeStephanie Zacharek It tries so desperately to be crazy and disturbing that all we can see is the effort made and the money spent. Read
• Roger EbertGlenn Kenny A hallucination that's also an angry cry about the state of this world, but most importantly, a cinematic experience of unique proportions. Read