This is the folk horror movie that Ireland deserves, and will hopefully become a beacon for what the country is capable of going forward.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2024

Ultimately, You Are Not My Mother is a fascinating watch with an excellent production value. It is let down only by its lackluster third act...

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 24, 2024

Dolan comes off as a confident, capable director on her debut feature film. The film also shows she’s willing to take a chance on stepping away from conventional horror tropes and finding inspiration in older European myth and legend.

| Oct 31, 2023

You Are Not My Mother lives at the fringes of folk horror, but the underlying family melodrama drives a story more interested in generational trauma than a supernatural fairytale.

| Jun 13, 2023

You Are Not My Mother is filled with metaphor, folklore, and cleverly crafted allusions that must be watched to fully understand.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 24, 2022

You Are Not My Mother is a darkly magical tale, with plenty of impactful scares, underpinned by incredible performances that make this a must-see.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 10, 2022

You Are Not My Mother is an eerie new entry in the folk horror subgenre that mixes magic and family trauma to chilling effect.

| Sep 8, 2022

This is an unsettling Irish horror movie that masterfully blends the real and the supernatural.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2022

Dolan shows an eye for composition and a crafty grip on the film’s tone, which stops just short of being dour and delivers a few hair-raising moments that’ll put a smile on the faces of horrormongers out there...

| Jul 25, 2022

Dolan crafts a gripping film that finds a way to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 27, 2022

'You Are Not My Mother' marks a thought-provoking, hard-hitting debut from Kate Dolan, balancing family drama with supernatural horror steeped in local legend.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2022

You Are Not My Mother has a mystery that's very easy to solve, but this well-acted horror movie adeptly maintains suspense in a story influenced by Irish folklore.

| Apr 26, 2022

An impressive debut feature.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2022

Dolan's film distinguishes itself with its memorably creepy blend of uncanny elements and kitchen-sink realism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2022

Crafting an effective dreamlike tone, first-time writer-director Kate Dolan mixes churning eeriness with earthy humour and emotions that are only barely under the surface.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2022

A slick and deeply unsettling indie flick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2022

The pleasures here are not gory or frenzy but rather quiet chilly vibes that should equally resonate with horror film fans.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 8, 2022

A viscerally terrifying and enervating tale about motherhood and mental illness.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 6, 2022

...lets Loachian realism cohabit with supernatural surrealism, and leaves the viewer to decide which mode of representation gets closer to the truth of this domestic situation.

| Apr 5, 2022

You Are Not My Mother is sufficiently well versed in the lore of both past and present to make it a must-see for genre fans

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2022