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By Leah Rozen (146) for TheWrap (3,203) on 17 Jan 2013

The fact that Guillermo del Toro is an executive producer of Mama is a tip-off that this won't be just another horror film with misbehaving…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 17 Jan 2013

Instead of delivering buckets of guts and gore, this ghost story offers a strong sense of time and place, along with the kind of niceties that…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama itself is above average as a piece of filmmaking, even if its scare quotient is middling or below. That's OK with me…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 17 Jan 2013

What more often sinks Mama is, well, Mama herself…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 17 Jan 2013

an interesting haunting angle and a before-she-was-famous Jessica Chastain does her bit to raise up the material, but the filmmakers seriously…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 17 Jan 2013

An effectively spooky ghost story with Guillermo del Toro's imprimatur (he's executive producer), Mama is every adoptive parent's nightmare…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 17 Jan 2013

Chastain digs deep, going beyond the call of scream-queen duty to find the passion that gives horror a pulse…

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By Kristin Tillotson (85) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama is a smartly refreshing departure, a truly scary movie exemplifying horror at its purest…

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By Tom Russo (407) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 17 Jan 2013

The frustration, though, is how much the movie leans on made-ya-jump scares and contrived plot devices when its quieter chills and already…

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By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama is a film that teeters on the brink of being good or bad, but the top-notch acting, stylish visuals, and surprisingly unconventional ending…

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By Matthew Razak (302) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama turns out to be a film that doesn't go far enough into its own concept, skirting the edges of edginess without ever wanting to actually…

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By Loey Lockerby (139) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 17 Jan 2013

Can we declare a moratorium on stringy-haired ghost women who make freaky noises…

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By Bruce Kirkland (531) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama is a throwback horror movie -- but don't throw it back. It has something powerful to offer if you like genuinely creepy, scary ghost stories…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 17 Jan 2013

The atmosphere is appropriately creepy, and there are some starts, if not outright scares...But it just gets stupid…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 17 Jan 2013

There is a kind of horror movie that bashes you in the head, and there is a kind of horror movie that creeps into your imagination…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 17 Jan 2013

The visual design of Mama is effective, at least in small, quick doses…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 17 Jan 2013

Mama is clumsily written and choppily edited, but Chastain doesn't have a bad scene in it, and you can see why she chose to be in this supernatural…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 17 Jan 2013

Movies like Mama are thrill rides. We go to be scared and then laugh, scared and then laugh, scared and then shocked…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 17 Jan 2013

The dull, cliche-filled Mama is the kind of movie in which you don't fear the demon in the main character's bed, only envy that she gets to lay down…

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By Brian Juergens (209) for CampBlood.org (64) on 17 Jan 2013

At long last, Vicki Lawrence is robbed of her title of Most Terrifying Mama - though it stumbles in its final scenes, this slow-burn creepfest…

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