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As challenging as it is rewarding, Mommy finds writer-director Xavier Dolan taking another impressive step forward.
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The cinematic frame might have contracted, but there's a kind of ferocious compassion in Dolan's vision, and its embrace is startlingly wide. Apr 9, 2015 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
The cinematic frame might have contracted, but there's a kind of ferocious compassion in Dolan's vision, and its embrace is startlingly wide.
Philippa Hawker
Dolan loves close-ups and he gives his actors every chance to demonstrate their talent for ringing the emotional changes in a single take. Apr 9, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Dolan loves close-ups and he gives his actors every chance to demonstrate their talent for ringing the emotional changes in a single take.
Sandra Hall
The plotting is wayward and haphazard but the film is made and performed with such frankness and emotional intensity that its occasional stumbles never seem a problem. Mar 20, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The plotting is wayward and haphazard but the film is made and performed with such frankness and emotional intensity that its occasional stumbles never seem a problem.
Geoffrey Macnab
As outrageous as it is insightful, Mommy is a mother-and-son melodrama taken to operatic heights. Mar 20, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
As outrageous as it is insightful, Mommy is a mother-and-son melodrama taken to operatic heights.
Kate Muir
This is easily Dolan's best film, and it's exciting to think how many times we might have to revise that statement over the years to come. Mar 19, 2015 | Rating: 5/5
This is easily Dolan's best film, and it's exciting to think how many times we might have to revise that statement over the years to come.
David Ehrlich
I suppose the relationship is Oedipal or primal or something or other, but mostly it's just an excuse for Dolan to stage a series of gaudy shout-fests. Feb 20, 2015 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
I suppose the relationship is Oedipal or primal or something or other, but mostly it's just an excuse for Dolan to stage a series of gaudy shout-fests.
Peter Rainer
Nno actress this year came close to matching the ferocious performance in Mommy by Anne Dorval... Aug 7, 2019 | Full Review…
Nno actress this year came close to matching the ferocious performance in Mommy by Anne Dorval...
Brian D. Johnson
Mommy is doubtlessly a true modern masterpiece. Aug 6, 2019 | Full Review…
Mommy is doubtlessly a true modern masterpiece.
Hanna B
A few false endings weaken Mommy's power and Pilon can annoy as much as he entertains at times, but the technicolour energy present onscreen is one of the most electrifying things this year. May 31, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A few false endings weaken Mommy's power and Pilon can annoy as much as he entertains at times, but the technicolour energy present onscreen is one of the most electrifying things this year.
Tom Bond
Dolan is a director who thinks hard about the possibilities of cinema and explores them with verve and ingenuity, but it is in his latest film that everything has come together. Apr 4, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Dolan is a director who thinks hard about the possibilities of cinema and explores them with verve and ingenuity, but it is in his latest film that everything has come together.
John Bleasdale
It's overwhelming, powerful, and bracingly sincere, though my initial reaction was that turning down the dials a bit (it's 139 minutes of fierce family drama) may have served it well. Mar 19, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
It's overwhelming, powerful, and bracingly sincere, though my initial reaction was that turning down the dials a bit (it's 139 minutes of fierce family drama) may have served it well.
Bernard Boo
This film kept surpassing my expectations by keeping its focus on [Anne Dorval's Diane] and not the one who would be the main character of any other film: her at turns charismatic, obnoxious and violent 15-year-old, blonde son, Steve. Mar 8, 2019 | Full Review…
This film kept surpassing my expectations by keeping its focus on [Anne Dorval's Diane] and not the one who would be the main character of any other film: her at turns charismatic, obnoxious and violent 15-year-old, blonde son, Steve.
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