Bellucci looks as if she is thinking about something else in every scene. It isn’t long before you’re doing the same.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 15, 2023

Super duper silly and fun.

| Apr 24, 2023

In the end Mafia Mamma falls between two stools; it’s much too violent to pass muster as a comedy (the MA15+ rating is well earned) and not interesting enough to work as a true mafia thriller.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 21, 2023

... Mafia Mamma’s combo of fish-out-of-water comedy, swoony romance, over-the-top action, and violent mob film is merely far too much and never good enough.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 19, 2023

It moves tactlessly from scene to scene, adorned with outrageous shoot-outs and lousy jokes, producing a feverish cinematic experience.

| Apr 15, 2023

Mafia Mamma is a chaotic farcical romp, carried by the charms, timing and gusto of Toni Collette’s comedic chops.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 14, 2023

This high-concept romp demands an over-the-top and facile narrative, and some of the bits are a bit hackneyed, but “Mafia Mamma” is much more wacky, funny and violent than the too-tame trailers would have you believe.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2023

With this tremendous director and stars, the comedy could have been a feast rather than a predictable two-course meal -- if only there had been a meaty script to digest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2023

Collette got to go to Europe and all we got was this lousy movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 14, 2023

A forced, flaccid farce.

| Apr 14, 2023

It’s the 'girl bossification' of the mafia.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 14, 2023

Hardwicke fails to rein in Collette’s performance. Her constant mugging for the camera reminded me of Jerry Lewis at his rubbery-faced worst.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 14, 2023

“Mafia Mamma” is a high concept elevator pitch that might have sustained a seven-minute comedy sketch but does not work as a feature-length movie.

| Original Score: C | Apr 14, 2023

To say Mafia Mamma shoots blanks would be an insult to actual blanks, which at least go bang.

| Original Score: D- | Apr 13, 2023

It’s stupid-silly and breezy fun, with a welcome feminist spin, and a committed, top-tier performance from Collette.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 13, 2023

[Toni Collette]’s maintained her flair for physical comedy and her double-takes are works of art but with this script, it’s not enough. The writers have let her down.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 13, 2023

It’s like someone’s always turning the knob in one direction, and then in another in Mafia Mamma, rarely settling on any mood with clear reception.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 13, 2023

The goriest death is by cliché. Nobody escapes it. Not even the wonderfully versatile Collette.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2023

“Mafia Mamma” is so wincingly awful it makes you question the professional bona fides of everyone who had a hand in greenlighting its existence.

| Apr 13, 2023

Collette is in her comedic prime flirting shamelessly and obliviously with a man who wants her dead, and it’s easy to enjoy when she is having so much fun herself.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 12, 2023