This film attempts to masquerade as something more sophisticated than what it is—a home invasion movie—and I'm not thrilled when movies try to deceive their audience in that way. It feels like a deception, and I really dislike films that present themselves as being better than they truly are. The performers aren’t at fault here; the blame rests with the director and the studio. They were after attention, confl…

It’s hard to say exactly what was going on in *mother!*, but I still found it pretty entertaining, even if my initial understanding was incorrect compared to explanations I’ve read later. That doesn’t bother me; being entertained is really the main thing. Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem both deliver strong performances, and they definitely carry the movie. Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer also have memorable pa…

Perhaps this film wasn’t aimed at someone like me. Regardless, for most of the runtime I was puzzled, frequently wondering what exactly I was watching. I went to see it hoping for something decent—not spectacular, but pleasant enough. What I got instead was a movie that felt baffling, included violence seemingly without purpose, failed to establish any clear narrative or develop a story, and generally made me unea…

_mother!,_ the film's name in all lowercase letters. Seriously, _mother!_, I wish you had used capital letters there because I have a question that demands a great many of them: "WHO EXACTLY WAS THIS MOVIE MADE FOR?" Final rating: ★★½ - There were aspects I found appealing, but it didn’t fully succeed as an entire piece.

It’s genuinely difficult to assign a numerical rating to this movie; trying to do so feels inadequate. I feel pulled toward giving it both a top score and a middling one, and neither would truly capture its essence, so I'm settling somewhere in between. Aronofsky has created some disturbing films before, but this one reaches an entirely different plane of intensity. If you recall the intensely chaotic ending of _Requ…