Critic Reviews
Mother, The (2004) Rank 2 Reviews
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TV Guide (Ken Fox)
The film is marvelously acted all around, and the fact that there isn't a false note in the entire film is especially impressive given Kureishi's melodramatic contrivances and the fact that his characters are clichés whose behaviors are predictable ...read the complete Mother movie review at TV Guide (Ken Fox)
New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
There is in The Mother a rich understanding of where old age takes you. Along with the myth that seniors don't have sex drives, the film dispels a larger one: that the years bring wisdom. ...read the complete Mother movie review at New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
There's not a vaguely sympathetic character in sight; Kureishi ultimately seems prudishly disapproving of his heroine's last gasp of sexual adventure; and what another writer might have found liberating and healing, he finds distasteful and destructive. ...read the complete Mother movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
The Mother winds up unpersuasive, in large part due to writer Hanif Kureishi, who visits on all his mopey characters such calculated savagery, it's hard to care much for them or to get onboard for the hope implied in the hastily stitched-on ending. ...read the complete Mother movie review at LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Variety (Derek Elley)
A portrait of a contempo British family drifting apart because of generational differences, The Mother ends up an uneasy brew of too many competing tastes and themes. ...read the complete Mother movie review at Variety (Derek Elley)
New York Post (Megan Lehmann)
A promising film that is dragged down by the weight of its gray morbidity. ...read the complete Mother movie review at New York Post (Megan Lehmann)
Austin Chronicle (Kimberley Jones)
A certain inevitability hangs over The Mother – as if any of this could end well – but if Kureishi's framework is perhaps predictable, his knotty, complex characters are not. ...read the complete Mother movie review at Austin Chronicle (Kimberley Jones)
The New Republic (Stanley Kauffmann)
This film holds and convinces, even evokes empathy, because of Anne Reid, an actress long experienced in British television and film. She gives May intelligence and spirit and a somewhat genteel wonder at the resurging of desire. ...read the complete Mother movie review at The New Republic (Stanley Kauffmann)
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