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By Katie Rife (451) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 May 2023

Like most Netflix movies, no matter what The Mother would be a perfectly serviceable thing to have on in the background while you tidied the…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 May 2023

From scene to scene, Lopez and Caro do fill these broad outlines with real feeling, bringing a personal touch to old pulp archetypes…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 12 May 2023

The Mother would be more effective if she could wink at the audacity of the material instead of just playing it all straight…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 May 2023

I’m not going to spoil the epilogue in the slick but trashy and quite dumb Jennifer Lopez action movie The Mother, but I will say it’s…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 12 May 2023

The most interesting part of The Mother, a decent if forgettable action pic starring Jennifer Lopez, is the one that is left largely unexplored…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 12 May 2023

So much of The Mother feels like a movie star doing an imitation of what they think a tough, serious, jaded hero is like rather than actually…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 12 May 2023

The Mother is watchable, here and there. Decently acted. Over-the-top, but not far enough over it to make it fun…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 12 May 2023

The kill count generally provides the requisite thrills, but everything else seems stitched together from genre clichés…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 May 2023

Lacking the velocity and excitement of an action movie and the reality of good drama, The Mother is the worst of both worlds…

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By Marya E. Gates (65) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 May 2023

Unfortunately [Lopez's] hampered by a character that is simultaneously overwritten and underwritten, while trapped in a film that never gives…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 12 May 2023

Jennifer Lopez and all the mothers out there deserve better than this gross, cringey gorefest about a military-trained assassin (JLo) who makes…

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By Krisjlo (1) on 12 May 2023

JLO IS THE MOTHER!!! Such an amazing film that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish…

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By Jude Dry (205) for IndieWire (3,631) on 11 May 2023

If they can look past their own internal biases, The Mother should satisfy even the most diehard action fans, while leaving the door to some new ones…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 May 2023

The second half of The Mother settles for the usual…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 May 2023

I’ll take this JLo as “nobody fucks with me or my daughter” killing machine, discovering her long-hidden maternal instincts, over those…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for The New York Times (9,847) on 11 May 2023

Apart from some deadpan exchanges between the Mother and Zoe, Lopez plays the role fierce…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 11 May 2023

Lopez indulges a different form of movie-star vanity than simply making herself over as an unstoppable woman of action…

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By Tania Hussain (5) for Collider (1,032) on 11 May 2023

The character-driven action epic from director Niki Caro is at times imbalanced and lacks subtlety…

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By Courtney Howard (393) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 May 2023

It’s decent but a tad too restrained for its own good…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 11 May 2023

The movie, which should have been 90 minutes long (it’s 116), is lumpy and inflated, it’s sketchy yet a touch grandiose, and it’s full…

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