A film neither willfully difficult nor easily accessible, conjuring an illusion of vapidness that may be rather too convincing for some audiences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2018

The film's depiction of capitalism's erosion of the family unit is so heavy-handed that any emotional or affecting moments are undermined by the transparency of Moodysson's intentions.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 11, 2016

The real trouble with Mammoth is that [Lukas] Moodysson, more practiced in subtlety than he's given credit for, exhibits none here.

| Sep 24, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Having spent a decade purposefully alienating audiences, Swedish writer/director Lukas Moodysson claws his way back into the mainstream with this condescending, glossy slice of We Are The World-style film-making.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 10, 2011

This is the Mike Leigh paradis terrestre, as good as it gets.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2010

Mammoth looks sleek and is well-acted but the preachy tone is hard to bear.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2010

[A] Babel-ish drama about the malaises wrought by globalisation, how we're closer than ever, and yet, if I'm not mistaken, farther apart. Unfortunately, you've seen it already.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2010

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with message movies like this provided the characters feel real (they don't) and it's handled with a light touch (it isn't).

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2010

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 5, 2010

Mammoth is a masterclass in feel-bad cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2010

[A] fatuous, self-serving and fantastically dishonest exercise in pseudo-compassion, composed in the supercilious "globalised" style of Alejandro Gonzlez Iarritu's 2006 film Babel.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 4, 2010

As woolly and elephantine as its title.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 4, 2010

Mammoth is well-meaning, but ultimately contrived and melodramatic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2010

Lukas Moodysson's approach to filmmaking was becoming increasingly experimental, so it is a surprise to see how conventional Mammoth is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2010

This is an impressively directed, superbly acted and emotionally engaging drama, though the script is occasionally a little heavy-handed and the whole thing is nearly scuppered by a jaw-droppingly crass final line.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2010

Moodysson braids these threads with contrived symmetries. The preaching soon grows wearisome.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2010

A return to form by Moodysson although the bigger Irritu-like stuff -- globalisation, poverty, fraying family relationships -- are all a bit too neat to really engage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2010

An interesting idea, but Mammoth's good intentions -- like its characters' -- are lost somewhere in the delivery.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2010