mother!

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “mother! is something truly magnificent, the kind of visceral trash-arthouse experience that comes along very rarely, means as much or as little as you decide it does, and spits you out into the daylight dazzled, queasy, delirious, and knock-kneed as a newborn calf.”

  Jessica Kiang, The Playlist · 100

• “Darren Aronofsky’s churning fever dream mother! is a devouring and restless experience: a creative surge that’s like the lancing of a boil, releasing a torrent of despair and disgust for the greedy chaos of society today as well as a self-loathing portrait of the artist as an emotional succubus.”

  Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily · 100

• “A sick joke, an urgent warning and a roar into the abyss, Mother! earns its exclamation mark three times over and more.”

  Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100

• “Yes, it is pretentious. But pretension is also about ambition and this is cinema that is willing to kick out the lights.”

  John Bleasdale, CineVue · 100

• “As horror it is ridiculous, as comedy it is startling and hilarious, and as a machine for freaking you out it is a thing of wonder.”

  Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100