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

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 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

| 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

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

Too many films exploit the perils faced by children when the social contract is ruptured, but Mammoth earns its cruel, sensationalistic turns and then some.

| Nov 23, 2009

The overlapping stories, the emotional disconnect, the heavy-handed symbolism -- no, it's not a movie from the makers of Babel, its a mumbling, stammering copycat drama from Swedish director Lukas Moodysson.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 20, 2009

Takes a bit too long to get going and perhaps bites off more thematically than it can chew, but it has too many intriguing ideas and spectacular performances to be dismissed.

| Nov 20, 2009

In Mammoth, when a rich child eats her lunch in New York, a poor boy in the Philippines cries. And so it goes, as privilege begets exploitation with grimly deterministic logic and pages and pages of bad dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 20, 2009

Mammoth manages to be as affecting as it is heartfelt.

| Nov 20, 2009

Any semblance of subtlety was unfortunately lost in translation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 20, 2009

The movie is at once intimate and (in its softhearted way) preachy.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 20, 2009

There are so many reasons to be outraged and depressed by this film, indeed, that it all but distracts from the real and immediate qualities of the four fine actors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 20, 2009

The movie lacks the personal touch that's distinguished even Moodysson's "difficult" films.

| Original Score: C | Nov 19, 2009