
Jeffrey Desange, senior partner of an investment brokerage, has a breakdown after a financial collapse and kills several co-workers and his estranged wife and kidnaps his two young daughters, Victoria and Lily. When they're found five years later, they're taken in by their uncle (their father's twin brother) and his girlfriend. Macabre events soon make the new guardians suspect that a supernatural evil force named Mama has attached itself to the girls.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jeffrey Desange, senior partner of an investment brokerage, has a breakdown after a financial collapse and kills several co-workers and his estranged wife and kidnaps his two young daughters, Victoria and Lily. When they're found five years later, they're taken in by their uncle (their father's twin brother) and his girlfriend. Macabre events soon make the new guardians suspect that a supernatural evil force named Mama has attached itself to the girls.
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| Film BlatherEugene NovikovMuschietti doesn't have the chops to sustain tension once he ditches the parts of his story that are conceptually intriguing. Once the film becomes a conventional horror show, it deflates fast. |
| Alternative LensJennifer HeatonOne of the few horror films that feels more character-driven and isn't just a monster-of-the-week jump scare fest. |
| Village VoiceMelissa AndersonMama never delivers the primal terror its premise would suggest. |
| TIME MagazineMary F. PolsMama is clumsily written and choppily edited, but Chastain doesn't have a bad scene in it, and you can see why she chose to be in this supernatural ghost story. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...an interesting haunting angle and a before-she-was-famous Jessica Chastain does her bit to raise up the material, but the filmmakers seriously lose their grip with a protracted finale that overexposes its titular monster |
| Cleveland Plain DealerClint O'ConnorMinus the blood, gore and carving devices of many horror films, Andres Muschietti's feature debut provides plenty of scares and jolts. Plus, there's Jessica Chastain. |
| Television Without PityEthan AlterThe middle section of the film just drags on and on, as Mama lurks about the house popping out an inopportune moments while Muschietti stalls for time. |
| Reel Times: Reflections on CinemaMark PfeifferWithin the context of a modern Brothers Grimm fairy tale Mama considers the range of maternal instincts from dutiful indifference to selfish sheltering. |
| Bloomberg NewsGreg EvansThe digitally created Mama is spooky in smaller, sudden doses, a spindly, broken-boned corpse-like thing with fingers like tree roots. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanMuschietti does an excellent job of revealing just enough about Mama as we go along (and just enough of Mama herself) to show he's in control of this genre. |