The final act of this film is simply some of the best filmmaking I saw in all of 2015...

| Aug 2, 2024

Mommy ratifies Dolan's immense talent, his ability to intensely direct actors and his tireless creativity, but also his capriciousness and superfluous aesthetic, which often make him lose focus of what is essential. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2023

...for all of Steve's livewire energy, the hero of Mommy is never in doubt. Anne Dorval is simply amazing as the indomitable Die...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 22, 2021

Let's say it's a movie for all the broken families in the world who have the illusion of being perfect. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 26, 2020

Nno actress this year came close to matching the ferocious performance in Mommy by Anne Dorval...

| Aug 8, 2019

Mommy is doubtlessly a true modern masterpiece.

| Aug 6, 2019

A few false endings weaken Mommy's power and Pilon can annoy as much as he entertains at times, but the technicolour energy present onscreen is one of the most electrifying things this year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 31, 2019

Dolan is a director who thinks hard about the possibilities of cinema and explores them with verve and ingenuity, but it is in his latest film that everything has come together.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 4, 2019

It's overwhelming, powerful, and bracingly sincere, though my initial reaction was that turning down the dials a bit (it's 139 minutes of fierce family drama) may have served it well.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 19, 2019

This film kept surpassing my expectations by keeping its focus on [Anne Dorval's Diane] and not the one who would be the main character of any other film: her at turns charismatic, obnoxious and violent 15-year-old, blonde son, Steve.

| Mar 8, 2019

Dolan's weakness is that beneath the razzamatazz, he's saddled himself with a straightforward narrative, thus his artillery merely serves the purpose of hammering home subtext

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2018

... for some this film will be drama with a capital D and a little too much but for me it epitomises what film making truly is: storytelling, imagery and engaging the viewer's heart and mind from start to finish.

| Aug 22, 2018

The film is altogether likable and tugs at heartstrings because it openly aims for them and, of Dolan's films to date, it's the most eager to please. But it underwhelms for the very same reasons.

| Aug 3, 2018

All three of the leads do excellent work, but Anne Dorval is especially stunning. I won't resort to the cliché "larger than life" to describe her performance, because nothing is larger than life in Mommy - except for life itself.

| Jan 12, 2018

The fact that this unusual film not only works, but is one of the best of the year, is conclusive proof that Xavier Dolan has joined the top tier of directors.

| Oct 11, 2017

Xavier Dolan's film gets under the skin, and stays there.

| Aug 8, 2017

In Mommy, Dolan has essentially stunted his work, speaking both figuratively and literally.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 6, 2016

Mommy forces you to give in to its relentless energy. Dolan conducts it with gusto, leaving us with a cathartic reckoning with his own demons.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2016

It's perhaps a never-seen-before technical stunt that's deeply intriguing, seriously cinematic and impossible to discuss without giving it all away.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2016

Xavier Dolan's Mommy is an endurance test even by the standards of miserablist drama.

| Dec 31, 2015