2017 · thriller · drama · revenge
Mom
Directed by Ravi Udyawar2h 27m2017
After her stepdaughter is sexually assaulted at a party, a furious mother sets out to destroy the lives of the four perpetrators who walked free.
Our read: Mom (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · drama · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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“You want a fierce maternal revenge thriller that refuses easy justice.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if assault trauma and vigilante rage will leave you gutted tonight.
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