“Mother!” has done what the writer-director set out to do: Provoke intelligent conversation after experiencing a film like you’ve never seen before. Kas So this movie is about: 1) a middle-aged guy married to a woman 20 years his junior; 2) unspeakable violence done to a woman. If Tom Six (director of “Centipede”) used Bergman’s cinematographer to film a script by Rob Zombie, you’d have this movie. “Mother!” is not for those seeking escapist entertainment, but I would urge people to watch it and spend time arguing about it afterward. David Michael Miller I saw it with my cousin and have since spent more time talking about it than we spent watching it.

Source: New York Times September 20, 2017 18:56 UTC