Mother (2009)

Mike Goodridge

Filled with the elegant compositions and mood-drenched cinematography which are becoming Bong’s specialty, Mother is a largely satisfying film which marks the director out as South Korea’s most versatile young auteur.

Full Review | Comment | May., 17 2009 06:00 AM

Tim Brayton

Kim Hye-Ja's performance is absolutely magnificent, the kind of performance that seems to radiate straight out of the actress's body.

Full Review | Comment | Oct., 15 2009 01:00 PM

Fernando F. Croce

Bong is less interested in shocks than in the synergy between the country's vast fields and the equally mysterious inner landscape of the dazed matriarch making her way across them.

Full Review | Comment | Oct., 05 2009 10:25 AM

Emanuel Levy

Changing pace after the entertaining horror yarn The Host, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's fourth feature is a compelling murder mystery as well as a darkly intense, splendidly acted chronicle of mother-son relationship.

Full Review | Comment | Sep., 09 2009 09:41 AM

Urban Cinefile Critics

Korean film-maker Bong Joon-ho's fourth feature film, Mother, displays an assurance in suspenseful story telling that is remarkable.

Full Review | Comment | Aug., 10 2009 09:15 PM

David Stratton

As with Bong’s other films, the genre plot is really an excuse to explore broader social issues, which he does with skill and dry wit. The result is a slightly overlong but entertaining and rather unexpected thriller.

Full Review | Comment | Jul., 10 2009 04:40 AM

Derek Elley

Less visionary than Bong's 2003 serial-killer mystery, "Memories of Murder," but with the same skillfully natural evocation of a rural community hiding dark secrets.

Full Review | Comment | May., 17 2009 05:21 AM