Mother! Review: 5 Ups & 4 Downs

Aronofsky's latest is built to divide.

By Jack Pooley /

Paramount Pictures

Darren Aronofsky's latest movie Mother! is in cinemas now, and what a wild ride it is. Though it's honestly best to avoid reading too much at all before you see it for yourself, the film has garnered relatively polarising reactions so far.

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Critics have largely praised the film, though there are a high number of both one-star and five-star reviews, indicating that it's going to invite passionate hatred and love in equal measure.

Mother! is not an easy movie to love at times and there are a lot of things that don't quite work, but it is a daring vision like nothing else released this year, so if you want to support an oddball movie starring some very, very talented actors, then you could certainly do much worse.

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Either way, the conversation surrounding this movie is going to be loud, so make sure to see it before any of the movie's disturbing surprises are ruined for you...