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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 18 Jan 2013

First-time writer-director Andy Muschietti, an Argentine discovered by Guillermo del Toro, relies too much, especially in the early going,…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 18 Jan 2013

There's something dead and rotting at the center of Mama, and it isn't the ghost of the woman who lends the horror film its title…

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By Clint O'connor (453) for Cleveland Plain Dealer (828) on 18 Jan 2013

Minus the blood, gore and carving devices of many horror films, Andres Muschietti's feature debut provides plenty of scares and jolts…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 18 Jan 2013

Spooky, supernatural and grotesquely stylish - with a silly, contrived conclusion…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 18 Jan 2013

If you like your scares to be of the traditional variety, this might just be right up your alley…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 18 Jan 2013

A very stylish ghost story with more on its mind than the usual slash-and-bleed horror flick…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 18 Jan 2013

It's a good, old-fashioned sit-around-the-campfire ghost story, one that delivers on its sole reason for existence: to raise the hairs on the…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Mania.com (396) on 18 Jan 2013

Muschietti definitely has a future in this genre if he chooses to pursue it…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 18 Jan 2013

[T]he screenplay runs around in circles…

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By Gary Wolcott (857) for Tri-City Herald (818) on 18 Jan 2013

Two-thirds of the way through Mama a psychiatrist hypnotizing a little girl asks her if she's asleep. Yes, she says…

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By Greg Maki (546) for Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (546) on 18 Jan 2013

Cliches mount until the climax, which is strangely satisfying and anything but the happily-ever-after conclusion we have been bred to expect…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 17 Jan 2013

a ghost story where we care about the real people as much as the tragic story of the ghost…

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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 17 Jan 2013

Muschietti doesn't have the chops to sustain tension once he ditches the parts of his story that are conceptually intriguing…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 17 Jan 2013

A beautifully macabre fairy tale. Mama is an early-in-the-year scream, and deliciously so…

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By Kevin C. Johnson (66) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 17 Jan 2013

The finale is heavy on CGI. But it never takes away from this respectable entry into the horror genre that values chills over kills…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama is an enchantingly dark fairy tale mixed with horror and fantasy, playing off the emotions of a mother's undying love, shown in a powerful…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama is skillfully made, and although Chastain is the best thing in it, she's not the only thing in it…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 17 Jan 2013

Muschietti does an excellent job of revealing just enough about Mama as we go along (and just enough of Mama herself) to show he's in control…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama is something of a throwback, and at times a stunning one…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Film.com (1,892) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama is one of those pictures that holds you aloft on its vaporous mood of dread – the occasional silliness of the plot mechanics don’t…

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