Review of mother! (2017) by Tony F — 26 Sep 2017
While it might be getting pitched as a horror movie, mother! actually emerges as a kind of dark, twisted, deeply emotional, dreamlike, and surrealist fable, loaded with symbols, and rich in metaphor. An ecofeminist parable of incivility, violation, narcissism, sacrilege, greed, devastation, carnage and ruin. A unique and thorny masterpiece, that defies categorisation, and should wear its 'F' Cinemascore like a badge of honour. A year from now more people will like the movie than do today. In ten years there'll be people denying they ever didn't like it.
Oh, and Jennifer Lawrence gives a performance for the ages.
This review of mother! (2017) was written by Tony F on 26 Sep 2017.
mother! has generally received positive reviews.
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