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The Mother

The Mother

2023

Niki Caro

Jennifer Lopez, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Joseph Fiennes ...

4.8

2,029

Thriller. Action While fleeing from dangerous assailants, an assassin comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she left earlier in life.

	Author	Review
United States	M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut	"A dull, stagnant, and futile exercise in streaming content (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Tania Hussain Collider	"Though JLo is fun to watch, this film falls short of being truly great"	NEU
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"The combination of a bargain basement script and an overly serious tone prove to be a lethal combination"	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"This is a performance so loaded with celebrity baggage it's never going to be fully convincing as a deadly assassin. Yet JLo is the chief reason to watch [this] thriller, which is better than average, as star-driven features go"	NEU
United States	Courtney Howard AV Club	"Given the solid pedigree behind these filmmakers, it's a surprise to see their creative consommé turn out much less flavorful than expected. 'The Mother' doesn't examine, augment, or challenge the genre's familiar formulas"	NEG
United States	Kristen Lopez The Wrap	"'The Mother' works despite its shortcomings and because Jennifer Lopez has that movie star allure (...) [It] is a solid timewaster on Netflix, worth a watch but don’t worry if you forget it by June"	NEU
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"So much of 'The Mother' feels like a movie star doing an imitation of what they think a tough, serious, jaded hero is like rather than actually playing one"	NEG
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Lopez glides through all the bloodletting and occasional moments of rumination like a star, because she is one (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
Canada	Ferdosa Abdi Screen Rant	"A solid action drama with a standout Jennifer Lopez (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The screenplay clunks and everyone is phoning it in, especially Fiennes who looks understandably bored and irritated by the whole tiring business (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"While there's enough action to keep you at least half-engaged with the material, you might want to spend Mother's Day weekend doing something else instead"	NEU
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"From scene to scene, Lopez and Caro do fill these broad outlines with real feeling, bringing a personal touch to old pulp archetypes"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Jennifer Lopez can do it all —except play a convincing mercenar (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Marya E. Gates The Playlist	"A soulless faux-feminist Netflix thriller"	NEG
United States	Noah Berlatsky Chicago Reader	"This is a movie that, like its protagonist, promises exactly what it can deliver and no more"	NEU
United States	Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine	"As with many of her rom-coms, though, the vehicular design becomes too visible, obscuring any potential genre pleasures. She may the same age, but the movie gets old"	NEU
United Kingdom	Amon Warmann Empire	"This is a come-for-Lopez, stay-for-Lopez endeavour, and she’s on fine, movie star form in this serviceable, if forgettable action thriller (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"At just under two hours, it is a bit too long. However, this doesn’t ruin anything overall, so it’s still very much worth watching (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Alex Maidy JoBlo	"The biggest shortcoming in watching 'The Mother' may be its lack of anything original in the story (...) Regardless, I enjoyed watching this and would not be opposed to seeing Jennifer Lopez take on more roles like 'The Mother'"	NEU
United States	Katie Rife rogerebert.com	"Like most Netflix movies, no matter what 'The Mother' would be a perfectly serviceable thing to have on in the background while you tidied the living room or answered emails on your phone (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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