Aronofsky "recycles" others' and, ironically, his own previous film ideas, resulting in Mother! appearing an unoriginal horror concoction, an uncomfortable reminder of other, much better films.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2024

If mother! lacks the refinement of a manifesto for a new breed of movie theater flick, it makes up for it in the audacity to be unique.

| Dec 6, 2023

Once movies leave their creators’ hands they often become their own thing. “mother!” benefits from that truth. While Aronofsky has a pointed personal meaning behind it, what you bring to the film will help define it for you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

You may think it’s high art or garbage, but this movie is a singular experience.

| Jun 21, 2022

The problem is the hyperbolic approach that marks every aspect of the storytelling and renders the experience hollow.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2022

The anxiety-prone should beware: this might be a rough watch. For everyone else: "enjoy" the ride!

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 21, 2022

The film is ugly, disturbing, and not for everyone -- it's also fascinating, thought-provoking, and rich with religious allegories.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 18, 2021

It's a good thing that films as bonkers as this exist...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2021

It can be a frustrating film at times, but also so intriguing.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 23, 2021

Mother! is what happens when a dude has an idea he thinks is brilliant and no one checks him on it.

| Mar 1, 2021

A deliberately opaque movie. Like looking into a self-reflective mirror you will take away whatever you put into it. The only thing sure about it is that it is most confounding studio movie of the year.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2021

It all goes horribly wrong in the ridiculous finale

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2020

Aronofsky gleefully drags his audience through a bevy of carnage but maintains just the pace to gaslight viewers into understanding the film's Polanskian brand of logic.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Mother! is a dense, twisting fever dream spawned from some sort of mad genius. Depending who you are, you will either end up fascinated by the whole thing or confused and angry with it.

| Jul 3, 2020

Aronofsky manages to make the film hide the narrative weaknesses under the curtain of the allegories that make up society.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 27, 2020

To fully appreciate the mother! experience, you must see it in a theater, where you are forced to commit. You either engage with it or you run screaming from the theater.

| May 13, 2020

It was pretty obvious what was going on to me.

| May 13, 2020

This was such nonsense.

| May 13, 2020

mother! dives down a dream logic rabbit hole and creates a reality where anything can happen.

| Mar 30, 2020

Still, pretentious and overblown as it most certainly is, there is enjoyment to be had while watching (or even re-watching) Mother!

| Feb 29, 2020