Synopsis
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
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Cast
- Jennifer LawrenceMother
- Javier BardemHim
- Ed HarrisMan
- Michelle PfeifferWoman
- Brian GleesonYounger Brother
- Domhnall GleesonOldest Son
- Jovan AdepoCupbearer
- Amanda ChiuDamsel
- Patricia SummersettConsoler
- Eric DavisBumbler
Recommendations
- 100
The Playlist
mother! is something truly magnificent, the kind of visceral trash-arthouse experience that comes along very rarely, means as much or as little as you decide it does, and spits you out into the daylight dazzled, queasy, delirious, and knock-kneed as a newborn calf. - 100
The Telegraph
A sick joke, an urgent warning and a roar into the abyss, Mother! earns its exclamation mark three times over and more. - 100
CineVue
Yes, it is pretentious. But pretension is also about ambition and this is cinema that is willing to kick out the lights. - 100
The Guardian
As horror it is ridiculous, as comedy it is startling and hilarious, and as a machine for freaking you out it is a thing of wonder. - 91
IndieWire
mother! begins as a slow-burn and builds towards a furious blaze. Awash in both religious and contemporary political imagery, Darren Aronofsky’s allusive film certainly opens itself to a number of allegorical readings, but it also works as a straight-ahead head rush. - 90
Screen Daily
Darren Aronofsky’s churning fever dream mother! is a devouring and restless experience: a creative surge that’s like the lancing of a boil, releasing a torrent of despair and disgust for the greedy chaos of society today as well as a self-loathing portrait of the artist as an emotional succubus. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This is a tale that, like any number of fanciful genre outings, both pulls you in with its intriguing central dramatic situation and pushes you out with some mightily far-fetched plot contrivances. - 60
Variety
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.
