Review: Mother!, Ambitious and Dorky, Is Guaranteed to Be Divisive

Sep 06, 2017, 09:28 PM

The subtitle of Darren Aronofsky’s terrorized-wife horror thriller Mother!—which plays here at the Venice Film Festival in competition and opens in the United States on September 15—could be, to borrow a phrase from Thelma Ritter in All About Eve, “Everything But the Bloodhounds Snappin’ at Her Rear End.