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The Mother (2023)
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Gael García Bernal in The Mother (2023, Niki Caro)
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The Mother (2023), dir. Niki Caro
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The Mother dir. Niki Caro (2023)
After years of hiding out in the Alaskan wilderness, a deadly assassin returns to rescue the daughter she loved from afar.
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moviemosaics · 10 months
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The Mother
directed by Niki Caro, 2023
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oldfilmsflicker · 10 months
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new-to-me #387 - Mulan (2020)
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adamwatchesmovies · 2 months
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Whale Rider (2003)
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When a film is described as “inspirational”, that can often actually mean cloying or manipulative. Take away the empowering and uplifting message in Whale Rider, and you’ve still got a great movie, largely thanks to the direction by Niki Caro and lead actress, Keisha Castle-Hughes. This is a story of powerful emotions.
In a small New Zealand village, twelve-year-old Paikea “Pai” Apirana (Castle-Hughes) dreams of becoming her tribe’s chief. Unfortunately, her grandfather, Koro (Rawiri Paratene), will not teach her to lead. Undeterred, she begins training in secret.
Though this is very much a film about the Māori people, it has universal appeal. It’s not an opioid crisis, or their land being taken away by some foreign power that’s caused the island's society’s decay. It isn’t climate change or the new world stamping out tradition that’s causing people to turn away from each other. It’s something deep within, something too deep to clearly define that's causing the edges of this normally tight circle to fray. Pai’s father left his home to pursue an art career in Germany after his wife and son (Pai’s twin brother) died. This left Pai to be trained by a grandfather who loves his family… but is stubbornly upholding traditions that prevent him from showing it. Other families too, have lost something. If someone - a new voice that can give all of these lost souls direction - doesn’t step up and take charge, the great wake (canoe) will never be completed and the damage - regardless of what caused it - done to these people will never heal.
There are two emotions at this film’s core. The first is sadness. Grandfather Koro can be so cruel that in any other movie, you would hate him. Writer/director Niki Caro takes us to a deeper level than that one emotion. We know why he is so unhappy, why he loses hope with each day. The same goes for all of the other fathers we meet. They’re not bad, just lost. It’s a thousand times more painful to see.
The second emotion is a tiny glimmer of hope. You've seen how determined Paikea is to learn even when she's forbidden to do so. You believe she will live up to her namesake, the man who led his people from Hawaiki to New Zealand on the back of a whale. If only she can learn to believe in herself as well. When she speaks up and defies her grandfather, you want her to keep at it but you know how much that's asking, particularly for a child. There’s a moment when she’s at her most vulnerable that comes in and just obliterates you like a sledgehammer hitting a glass cup. Before that scene, Keisha Castle-Hughes was so convincing in the role, that you just saw her as a person who might’ve been cast because this tale is semi-autobiographical or something. Suddenly, you realize this is something different. She’s good like you never knew a kid that age could be.
Whale Rider is the kind of movie you hold onto tightly. No matter how old you are, now is the right time to meet these characters and hear their story. The performances are spectacular and the emotions are so strong they’ll be as clear as the first time you felt them long after the credits are done. Everyone should see Whale Rider at least once. (October 1, 2021)
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The Mother (2023)
Directed by Niki Caro
Cinematography by Ben Seresin
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thecurvycritic · 11 months
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Jennifer Lopez Brings Mama Bear Vigilante Vibes to the Mother
When I tell you there is nothing better than seeing @jlo thrive in her action mode - it really does give meaning to greater later @netflix #themother
Did you know that the Latino community actually celebrates Mother’s Day on May 10th no matter what?  It’s a little know fact I discovered on my way to the premiere.  Having said that, if you have read read my reviews you know that I love me some Jennifer Lopez and watching her in The Mother is no different. Lopez is fully embracing her Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie action mode taking on the role of…
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'La Madre' con Jennifer Lopez | Tráiler oficial
Mira el tráiler oficial de 'La Madre' con Jennifer Lopez y Gael García Bernal. Estreno en mayo.
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The Mother Teaser
An assassin “comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.” (Netflix)
The Mother stars Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Fiennes, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Paul Raci, and Gael Garcia Bernal. Niki Caro directs from a screenplay by Misha Green, Andrea Berloff, and Peter Craig. The story is by Green.
The Mother hits Netflix in May 2023.
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moviesandmania · 2 years
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THE MOTHER (2023) Action thriller with Jennifer Lopez - teaser trailer
THE MOTHER (2023) Action thriller with Jennifer Lopez – teaser trailer
The Mother is a 2023 American action thriller about an assassin who comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she left earlier in life. Directed by Niki Caro (Mulan; The Zookeeper’s Wife; McFarland USA; A Heavenly Vintage; North Country; Whale Rider; Memory & Desire) from a screenplay co-written by Misha Green, Andrea Berloff and Peter Craig; from a story by Misha Green. Produced by Elaine…
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THE MOTHER | Official Teaser | Netflix
Dir: Niki Caro Star: Jennifer Lopez / Gael García Bernal / Joseph Fiennes
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oldfilmsflicker · 11 months
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It pains me to write another negative review for a J.Lo movie, but here we are.
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adamwatchesmovies · 9 months
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The Mother (2023)
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The best thing about The Mother is that it gives Jennifer Lopez the chance to play a diffent character than we're used to seeing from her. Turns out she can handle the action thriller stuff pretty well. The film itself is unfortunately more or less what we’ve come to expect from a streaming platform original. It’s well made but ultimately, generic and unmemorable. More content than passion project.
An unnamed U.S. military operative (Jennifer Lopez, whose character is only credited as “The Mother”) gives up her newborn daughter after becoming an informant for the FBI. Initially she was happy to work - and become romantically engaged with - Ex-SAS Captain Adrian Lovell (Joseph Fiennes) and arms dealer Hector Álvarez (Gael García Bernal) but once she found out they were involved in child trafficking, she double-crossed them. Now, they want her dead and no one is safe. Twelve years later, “The Mother” is a recluse living in Alaska when Special agent William Cruise (Omari Hardwick) approaches her. Zoe (Lucy Paez) has been captured by Álvarez's men to draw out their real target. It's a trap, but "The Mother" has no choice.
I can see why the film chose not to give Lopez’s character a name. “The Mother” cares about Zoe but she has no idea how to show it; she’s cold and the only parenting she manages to do is teach the girl extreme survival skills like shooting, trapping, and carving up game once it becomes clear Zoe will have to defend herself from the bad men. "The Mother" was the kind of person who pursued romance once upon a time but now, that’s all gone. Even to her friends, she’s distant. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure what's the cause. Giving up her daughter, maybe? Anyway, in execution, the choice not to give her a name makes for some clunky, carefully phrased dialogue. It’s not the only awkward choice. Omari Hardwick’s character is critical to the plot, until about halfway through when he gets dropped and essentially replaced by Zoe. While it’s an unpredictable turn, it minimizes the human connections between our protagonist who, unfortunately, you have a hard time becoming endeared towards. She came to the authorities and said something when she found a shipping container full of children. Cool. Before then, she was selling mines and guns to the kind of people that would round up said children though, so it’s not like she's fully redeemed yourself in our eyes. Even when “The Mother” goes after the men who kidnapped Zoe, it feels like she’s doing it for selfish reasons because she is so unemotional during the whole thing.
On the upside, you hate the villains and seeing them get taken out is satisfying. The “boss battles” are fun - in a nasty sort of way - and varied enough so that seeing "The Mother" and Special agent Cruise take baddies out never gets old. There’s plenty of tension throughout, particularly during the climax. The story moves at a good pace and it's never boring.
The price you're paying for admission to see The Mother - which is essentially nothing since you're already subscribed to the streaming service - is perfect. It's not a bad movie. It's just not memorable. As an action thriller you can throw on the TV to pass some time, it will keep you entertained. I mean that in a good way. (June 10, 2023)
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