SummaryA Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious. [Part of Amazon's Welcome to the Blumhouse series]
Directed By:Ryan Zaragoza
Written By:Marcella Ochoa, Mario Miscione
Madres
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Mixed or Average
43
User score
Mixed or Average
5.2
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
43
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Oct 7, 2021
80
Madres never loses a strong underpinning of social conscience that seeps into director Ryan Zaragoza’s considered shots.
Oct 7, 2021
60
A subdued score and some by-the-book camerawork can make this urgent story drag, but what it lacks in sting it makes up for with an original script (by Marcella Ochoa and Mario Miscione) and a ferociously pregnant protagonist who would make the “Fargo” character Marge Gunderson proud.
Oct 12, 2021
50
Didactic in its approach to the material—which, to be clear, is absolutely horrifying and very real—Madres has some good ideas, but it fails to see the structural forest for the sumptuously photographed trees.
Oct 8, 2021
25
Calling a movie like Madres by-the-numbers would be a compliment, and an overstatement, because that would indicate that the makers were even mildly successful.
Oct 15, 2021
20
Madres is extremely fragmented and painfully subpar, wasting a chance to tell an intriguing, nuanced story that is still an issue in the present.
User score
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5.2
33% Positive
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Oct 18, 2021
5
I found it more competent than I initially expected because it manages to invoke a good atmosphere of suspense and an engaging mystery. However, as this mystery begins to unfold, the story also starts to lose pace and impact, and its final act responds more to a portion of anguish rather than horror. The closing with the mention of eugenics applied to immigrants feels gratuitous and insubstantial because it seems like a device that tries to justify this story in general, but fails in a resounding way to give a real voice to that issue.
Production Company:
- Amazon Studios
- Blumhouse Productions
- Marginal Mediaworks
Release Date:Oct 8, 2021
Duration:1 h 23 m
Awards
Imagen Foundation Awards
• 2 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Nomination
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