Mother!

The Black Swan director pushes some serious buttons, for good reasons.

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Darren Aronofsky’s scorchingly brilliant thriller Is visceral, go-for-broke madness.

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Darren Aronofsky’s deranged home-invasion tale stunned TIFF audiences just as it did at the Venice Film Festival.

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Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” is one of the most audacious and flat-out bizarre movies that a major studio has released in years.

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Featuring Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, 'Oscar-caliber' Michelle Pfeiffer, harrowing biblical allegory is 'work of a visionary,' says Peter Travers.

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God is a gaslighting husband in Darren Aronofsky’s brilliantly deranged Mother!.

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Jennifer Lawrence plays a woman living in a remote house with her poet husband (Javier Bardem). She’s devotedly restoring their formerly gutted home as he wrestles in his study with his latest work, when an unexpected guest (Ed Harris) arrives, mistaking their place for a B&B. When her husband surprisingly invites him and his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) to stay, we sense the couple may have let something far worse into their lives than passing strangers...

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Darren Aronofsky's latest stars Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a married couple whose lives start unraveling when unexpected guests arrive at their home.

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Jennifer Lawrence's 'mother!' births an insane piece of audacious art.

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The inevitable disappointing CinemaScore exit polls aside, it’s worth seeing — if you don’t mind a little insanity in escapism that offers no escape, only the promise of a new fairy tale on another page.

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“I’m really sorry for what’s about to happen,” director Darren Aronofsky said before showing “Mother!” at a packed Toronto Film Festival theater on Saturday.

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Mr. Aronofsky is a virtuoso of mood and timing, a devoted student of form and technique straining to be a credible visionary. But as wild and provocative as his images can be, there is something missing — an element of strangeness, of difficulty, of the kind of inspiration that overrides mere cleverness.

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Luckily, Aronofsky drops his pretenses in the second half, which flashes forward to the aftermath of Him publishing a new, successful poem.

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A mystifying visit with Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky.

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Jennifer Lawrence gets put through the torture-porn wringer in mother!

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I still don't fully understand how I feel about Aronofsky's latest, but hell, if you're into this kind of crazy, mother! might just be for you!

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Mother! is ambitious and dorky, like a Hieronymus Bosch painting redone as swirl-art. It’s entertaining to watch, because it’s not easy to see where it’s going—though you might feel a little underwhelmed when you discover where it ends up. The main reason to keep watching is Lawrence, receptive and radiant.

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Darren Aronofsky's head-trip horror movie, starring Jennifer Lawrence as a woman who slips down a rabbit hole of paranoia, is dazzling on the surface, but what lies beneath? Maybe nothing.

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Yet the movie’s grasp of experience feels tenuous, trippy, and, dare one say, adolescent; if you gave an extremely bright fifteen-year-old a bag of unfamiliar herbs to smoke, and forty million dollars or so to play with, Mother! would be the result.

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Even Lawrence’s magnetic powers can’t keep Mother! from going off the rails, which at first occurs cumulatively, then in a mad rush during the film’s outlandish climax.

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The film is a riot of religious symbolism, of-the-moment socio-political valences, and references that attempts to unite themes from nearly all of Darren Aronofsky’s work.

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Darren Aronofsky offers a tension-filled trip into his personal underworld in the new film starring Jennifer Lawrence.

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