The result feels like Herzog handed his camera and script to Shannon’s character Brad and let him direct.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2023

What results is a very theatrical world of quirk and weirdness that's too real to thrive in the weird, and too weird to thrive in the real. Just try to imagine Herzog in Lynch's world, and vice versa, and you might begin to envision this awkward world.

| Apr 10, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

What they deliver is the sort of fake mysticism that usually ensues when secular intellectuals try to plumb the depths of religious faith.

| Jan 3, 2011

The version of madness displayed by [Michael Shannon's] Brad is not typically dramatic; it's mostly just strange, and dances the line bordering on goofiness.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 25, 2010

More like a bad dream than a good film.

| Sep 13, 2010

It is a film that addresses itself directly to the audience of Lynch and Herzog, and sets out, in its own special way, to "razzle them, dazzle them, razzle dazzle them."

| Sep 10, 2010

It's like Psycho remade by Ed Wood.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2010

Oddly understated, it's nevertheless as unnerving a vision of disintegration in suburbia as you'd expect from director Werner Herzog and producer David Lynch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2010

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done finds God in a cereal box and Satan on an ostrich farm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2010

Unsettling but in a good way.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2010

The nods to Aguirre, Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo won't go unnoticed, but the more obtuse touches that bear the stamp of executive producer David Lynch may prove too eclectically eccentric.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2010

My Son, My Son... may be a minor work in the Herzog canon but it's still one of the more fascinating, frustrating, disturbing and beautiful experiences available to cinemagoers this year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2010

This is a must for Herzog and Lynch fans.

| Sep 8, 2010

Like many of the characters, the plot is under-developed yet My Son, My Son lingers in the brain and is essential viewing for Herzog and Lynch fans alike.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2010

Enjoyably weird thriller that's a treat for fans of both Herzog and Lynch, with a superb script and great performances from a terrific ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2010

Both baffling and mystifying, the film details a descent into madness with God in a boombox, worshipped oatmeal boxes, and the designated lunatic's proclaimed mantra, minus reference to any white whale though flamingos may be implicated, as Call Me Farouk

| Sep 6, 2010

Directed and co-written by Herzog (with Herbert Golder) and executive produced by Lynch,[the film] offers a whiff of originality in a sea of cinema schlock. But compared to both filmmakers' prior works, it's nowhere near as memorable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 11, 2010

A film that gets increasingly under our skin as it goes along, tying up loose ends along the way while leaving other things maddeningly out of reach

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 14, 2010

This is Herzog pursuing ideas that fascinate him almost without recourse to whether or not they "work"... wildly interesting, almost too interesting to handle.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 14, 2010