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Mother

Madeo (Mother)

2009

Bong Joon-ho

Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo, Yoon Je-Moon ...

7.2

9,117

Drama. Mystery. Thriller Widowed for a long time, a mother lives alone with her only son. He is 28 years old, a shy and quiet young man. In the aftermath of a terrible murder, the woman's hopeless, helpless son becomes the prime suspect. There is no real evidence against him, but the police throw groundless suspicion at him. Eager to close the case, the police are happy with their cursory investigation and arrest the boy. His defense attorney turns out to be ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"A chilling, intense character study. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A gripping psychological study (...) It's an arbitrary flourish of randomness, keeping us off balance and disturbed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The film is labyrinthine and deceptive, and not in a way we anticipate. It becomes a pleasure for the mind (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[It is] alternately dazzling and frustrating. Mr. Bong’s virtues as a filmmaker (...) can here feel like evasions or indulgences rather than fully thought-out choices."	NEU
United States	Maggie Lee The Hollywood Reporter	"It is a superb murder mystery, with twists coming thick and fast yet always at the right moments (...) [It creates] a sustained mood of claustrophobia and discomfort"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"Bong invests even the minor characters with complex personalities (...) 'Mother' is rarely splashy with its style, but the shots are well-chosen"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"The movie’s off-kilter story logic, pitch-perfect editing and beady compositional panache make it one of the most stylistically pleasurable in months."	POS

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