Mammoth (Mammut) Reviews
November 6, 2018
A film neither willfully difficult nor easily accessible, conjuring an illusion of vapidness that may be rather too convincing for some audiences.
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| Original Score: 2/5
March 11, 2016
The film's depiction of capitalism's erosion of the family unit is so heavy-handed that any emotional or affecting moments are undermined by the transparency of Moodysson's intentions.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
September 24, 2014
The real trouble with Mammoth is that [Lukas] Moodysson, more practiced in subtlety than he's given credit for, exhibits none here.
November 18, 2011
Original Score: 1/5
November 17, 2011
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| Original Score: 2/5
January 10, 2011
Having spent a decade purposefully alienating audiences, Swedish writer/director Lukas Moodysson claws his way back into the mainstream with this condescending, glossy slice of We Are The World-style film-making.
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 11, 2010
This is the Mike Leigh paradis terrestre, as good as it gets.
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| Original Score: 3/5
November 8, 2010
Mammoth looks sleek and is well-acted but the preachy tone is hard to bear.
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 6, 2010
[A] Babel-ish drama about the malaises wrought by globalisation, how we're closer than ever, and yet, if I'm not mistaken, farther apart. Unfortunately, you've seen it already.
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 5, 2010
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with message movies like this provided the characters feel real (they don't) and it's handled with a light touch (it isn't).
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 5, 2010
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| Original Score: 1/5
November 4, 2010
Mammoth is a masterclass in feel-bad cinema.
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| Original Score: 4/5
November 4, 2010
[A] fatuous, self-serving and fantastically dishonest exercise in pseudo-compassion, composed in the supercilious "globalised" style of Alejandro Gonzlez Iarritu's 2006 film Babel.
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| Original Score: 1/5
November 4, 2010
As woolly and elephantine as its title.
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| Original Score: 1/5
November 4, 2010
Mammoth is well-meaning, but ultimately contrived and melodramatic.
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| Original Score: 3/5
November 4, 2010
Lukas Moodysson's approach to filmmaking was becoming increasingly experimental, so it is a surprise to see how conventional Mammoth is.
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| Original Score: 3/5
November 4, 2010
This is an impressively directed, superbly acted and emotionally engaging drama, though the script is occasionally a little heavy-handed and the whole thing is nearly scuppered by a jaw-droppingly crass final line.
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| Original Score: 3/5
November 4, 2010
Moodysson braids these threads with contrived symmetries. The preaching soon grows wearisome.
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 3, 2010
A return to form by Moodysson although the bigger Irritu-like stuff -- globalisation, poverty, fraying family relationships -- are all a bit too neat to really engage.
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| Original Score: 3/5
November 3, 2010
An interesting idea, but Mammoth's good intentions -- like its characters' -- are lost somewhere in the delivery.
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| Original Score: 2/5