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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It sounds like the stuff of soap operas or bad porn, but Kureishi's script is too intelligent and empathetic to titillate. Read more
Marta Barber, Miami Herald: The Mother never fails to engage. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A soap opera with guts: a movie that takes a familiar situation ... and turns it into something rawer and more sexy. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: A well-intentioned but flawed British drama that presents a sexual relationship between a sixtysome-thing widow and a much-younger man, then sidesteps nearly all the issues it's pretending to address. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A troubling film about the need to be wanted. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's an awkward, discomfiting film, at times floridly melodramatic, at others downright gamy, and yet it gets at truths of human behavior that few movies think to touch. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: There is simply not a false note in this film -- every actor looks and behaves so exactly right that it is unthinkable that any other person play his or her role. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Though their selfishness is repellent, the characters feel strikingly real. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Reid ... is a discovery -- as believable and naturally sexual an older woman as Joan Collins is a caricature of one. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: The complications of its story are found in the deep complexities of emotions and family relationships. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: It neither reassures nor insults its audience. These days, a film that doesn't insult your intelligence is absolutely refreshing. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Absorbing, if uneven, chamber piece about a suburban woman on the cusp of old age. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: This raw stuff of contemporary kitchen-sink melodrama never gets too gritty or too greasy. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: There is in The Mother a rich understanding of where old age takes you. Along with the myth that seniors don't have sex drives, the film dispels a larger one: that the years bring wisdom. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Real life is often messy and full of unexpected consequences, and The Mother captures that perfectly. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A thoughtful, beautifully acted story about feeling alive before it's too late to feel anything. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: An intriguing study of the interlocking patterns of human lives that also makes for a superb movie, mature and well-observed, that dwells in the viewer's memory long after the final frame fades. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Anne Reid stars in this extraordinarily clear-sighted drama as a recently widowed grandmother who pursues an affair with her daughter's hunky, unhappily married boyfriend. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Reid's magnificent portrayal of the indomitable May has been insufficiently appreciated both here and in England. She is nothing short of uncanny. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: It challenges you to figure out how you feel about the people on the screen -- emotionally, intellectually, morally. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It shows how people play a role and grow comfortable with it, and how that role is confused with the real person inside. And then it shows the person inside, frightened and pitiful and fighting for survival. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The script here is by Hanif Kureishi, and Michell navigates its subtleties with ease. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: [Michell] shows what can be accomplished on a small budget with a brilliant script and a cast that rarely makes a false move. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: It's a remarkable film -- one to gnaw at you and keep you up at night. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Uses the surface familiarity of its situation ... to smuggle an elegantly carved Trojan horse full of messy emotional spillover into the theatre. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: A taboo-crusher that bracingly resists sensationalism and sentimentality. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: You may not enjoy The Mother (I certainly didn't), but it's a movie so heavy on truth, its spell cannot be denied. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Bracing but superb. Read more