A goofy, bumbling effort without the basic decency to know how bad it is.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

Super35 nudity and graphic sadism substitute for suggestiveness, and technology ups the gore but makes it cinematic common.

| Apr 30, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2011

Argento is admired for his voluptuous use of color and his operatic bloodletting; this is lovely to look at, if you can stand to.

| Dec 17, 2008

| Original Score: B- | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2008

Mother of Tears may not stand tall in Argento's body of viscera-laden work, but this final chapter of a loosely defined trilogy is refreshingly old school in its trashiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Aside from being vile and repellent, it's mainly dull -- old-fashioned in its shock tactics and culminating in a ho-hum climax.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Mother of Tears puts a dent in Argento's rep as a horror maestro.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2008

Argento's gothic hokey horror homage to sleazy sorceress boobs, demon damsels with too much makeup, and assorted cannibalistic weirdos run amok. Girl witches gone wild, Italian style.

| Sep 24, 2008

... Argento's nightmare vision is vivid enough to overcome the weaker aspects and make this a commendable, if not entirely satisfying, closing to his supernatural trilogy.

| Sep 19, 2008

I wanted this to be great. Hell, I would have settled for just above average. This just sucks. All of the key elements are in place -- a solid story, great gore F/X, good sound work ... everything except Dario.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2008

We come to an Argento picture for the surreal, Baroque imagery, and though much here fits those descriptions, there's a great deal of it that's also quite gaudy and goofy and, dare I say, campy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 29, 2008

Should be locked away for the sake of mankind.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 24, 2008

A real shame.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 15, 2008

A very entertaining fiasco

| Jul 7, 2008

... the concluding chapter of Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy dispenses with the overt stylization of its predecessors ... in favor of a sobering dose of realism.

| Jul 4, 2008

Mother of Tears is contrived, confused, clumsy, and quite simply dreadful.

| Jul 3, 2008

Mother of Tears feels like a copy, like someone "doing Argento", instead of the real deal that it could have been.

| Jul 3, 2008