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Adenike and Ayodele, a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn, are having trouble conceiving a child - a problem that defies cultural expectations and leads Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save or destroy her family.
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| The New York TimesA.O. ScottThis is not a fable of assimilation or alienation, but rather the keenly observed story of two people seeking guidance in painful and complicated circumstances. |
| The PlaylistChristopher SchobertThe most visually arresting drama of 2013, and certainly one of the year’s best films. |
| Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekAs Adenike, Gurira is wonderful: Her face is equally radiant whether she's channeling anguish or joy, and she captures the ways in which this woman, so old-country dutiful, also longs to join the modern world. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeSimply relating the narrative of Andrew Dosunmu’s seductive immigrant drama Mother of George would do little to convey the film’s stark, poetic power, much less its extraordinary visual and sonic acumen. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsIowa-native Gurira has had roles in TV’s “Treme” and “The Walking Dead,” but Mother of George should be the birth of a brilliant film career. |
| Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundBeautiful, poetic, and hard-hitting without the use of excessive force and deeply layered with evolving and regional nuances of feminine experience |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn engaging immigrant drama of the traditional Nigerian experience in NYC. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThere is a lot of wisdom in this film. There is strength in the old traditions, and error, too. In America, many people don't have these old traditions to guide them. They are something to hold onto, and that is a comfort. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertIt takes about 60 seconds before the elegant "Mother of George" has you firmly inside the world it has created. |
| Chicago ReaderBen SachsThe movie's an eyeful, and the filmmakers' attention to surface texture results in passages of genuine eroticism. |