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Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: A montage to "Wonderwall" (every last note of it) seems to sum up the movie; too much, but exhilarating all the same. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The movie's overlong, underpopulated and often devastating to watch. But it's told with an uncanny realism, and when it's over you feel shaken and a little sick - and realize that you can finally exhale. Read more
Mary Corliss, TIME Magazine: A film of suffocating power and surprising warmth. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: A funny, heartbreaking and, above all, original work from Canadian enfant terrible Xavier Dolan. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: It begins at a fever pitch and maintains that degree of in-your-face intensity for well over two hours, to either exhilarating or exhausting effect, depending on one's tolerance level. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Dolan is able to weave dialogue, camerawork, a fluid yet urgent editing style, and a magpie's ear for pop music into a cinematic world that you can almost hold in your hand before it starts spilling over. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Xavier Dolan ranks as the most accomplished young dramatic filmmaker in North America, and this engrossing character study, his fifth feature, demonstrates an emotional perspicacity one might expect from an artist many years his senior. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The movie's rhythm is jumpy, accelerated and alive. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: 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. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: "Mommy" is a shockingly honest, nerve-wracking and dazzling piece of cinema. If this doesn't rattle your soul, you don't have one. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: You feel the movie closing in on you the same way that life is closing in on the characters. Read more
Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter: Dolan's fifth feature feels like a strong step forward, striking his most considered balance yet between style and substance, drama-queen posturing and real heartfelt depth. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A story of the combative relationship between a mother and her son filled with delirious swells of effusive love and sudden plummets into madness and hate. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: Mother and son gesticulate wildly but remain undefined; Dolan's blandly showy aesthetic matches the vainly hectic action. Read more
Ella Taylor, NPR: Clocking in at an unfiltered - some would call indulgent - 129 minutes, Mommy gives the impression of having burst straight from Dolan's instincts onto the screen. Read more
Graham Fuller, New York Daily News: Boasting dynamite performances, "Mommy" excels as a confrontational, compassionate melodrama about the anguishing dilemmas of caretaking. It's a revelation. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Though not a musical, "Mommy" often feels like one as it swells and ebbs on the melodramatic currents of love, pain and frustration. It is also, within its very modest means, formally audacious. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Scary and wild, forthright and furious. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Even when director Dolan gets self-indulgent, he's a one-man fireworks display. His images jump off the screen. And just watch Anne Dorval. She practically dares you not to. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: "Mommy" is a passionate and generous portrait of three intersecting lives on the drab outer margins of middle-class society, told without condescension or sugary coating by an artist taking full command of his powers. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Dolan is only 25, and though he doesn't have Orson Welles beat, this has to be one of the best films ever written and directed by a 25-year-old. Read more
Kristin Tillotson, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Heartbreaking, if you can get past all the yelling. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Mommy feels like a quantum leap in empathy from Dolan's previous films. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Defiantly a movie for the here and now, something so immediate, its very form resembles Instagram photos or smartphone videos. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: Mommy is first and foremost a mother-and-son story, but it's also a surprisingly delicate exploration of lonely lives, and the temporary islands of companionship that make them bearable. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The volatile, unbridled emotion of "Mommy" - its sheer life force - makes up for its structural weaknesses ... Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: [It] can be seen as a tribute to maternal devotion, though I saw it for a long time as a study in perilous self-delusion. Read more