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Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: A self-satisfied, utterly hollow Bacchanal. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 110 minutes of Euro silliness mitigated only by the presence of Huppert and the striking ability of the actors to keep a straight face throughout this mess. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Probably isn't for anyone not interested in the darkest corners of the human psyche, where sexual annihilation is the only response to a fallen world, where all moral bets are off, and where a boy's worst friend is his mother. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Pretentious Eurotrash. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It winds up making incest look absurdly swank. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Honore never gets beneath these characters' sunburned skins, and well before the end, the film tips irretrievably over into the realm of absurdity. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Absurd at best, and most absurd when it's tiresomely trying to shock us. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: This tale of disaffected sexual depravity is practically a parody of the worst of French filmmaking. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Ma Mere may be ludicrous, but its cast displays a commitment that deserves more than grudging admiration. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The translation from the highly literary to the literalness of film isn't easy and too often, Ma Mere feels like a parody. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It could stand as Exhibit A for why French auteurs are a tough sell to the average seeker of entertainment. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Lurching toward its inevitable incestuous showdown, Ma Mere makes a few hilarious attempts at the cerebral. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: [The climax] involves such a disturbing blend of unhealthy mother-son affection and physical pain that it gives new meaning to the term child -- not to mention audience -- abuse. Read more