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(1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 52% Rotten Page   1   "There's a tongue-in-cheek spirit running rampant here, but it's not enough to excuse the film's more crummy sections."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari "could Argento really, like his Mater Lachrymarum, be returning to bring a second reign of blood, chaos and terror to the world? Or will he, like his heroine Sarah, find himself once again wading through shit? The truth lies somewhere in between."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel 3.5/4 "[Marries] CGI to Guignol whimsy in ways so tasteless that you can hear the crackle of Argento's mojo working."   Film Freak Central   Bill Chambers 4/5 "Hitting the ground running and never giving up for 90 nasty minutes, Mother of Tears is Dario Argento's final statement on his precedent as the definitive Delacroix of dread."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron A- " It's an imperfect motion picture, often downright ridiculous, but it's a blast of lusty, violent fun that doesn't come around nearly enough these days. Take it as a flamboyant exclamation point on a stalled career, and it's practically irresistible."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 1.5/5 "not nearly enough action and gore, and there's far too much time spent on uncovering secrets and tracking down random tidbits"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin C+ "This is a foreign horror movie that's all about style and shock value. The fruit of Argento's mad vision is an acquired taste, but there's plenty to chew on here."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 2.5/4 "...one can't help but admire any flick that features a baby death count of two."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair "... Argento's nightmare vision is vivid enough to overcome the weaker aspects and make this a commendable, if not entirely satisfying, closing to his supernatural trilogy."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. 3/4 "A work that builds on the visions of Suspiria and Inferno while crafting its own distinct dark-fairy-tale landscape."   Slant Magazine   Fernando F. Croce D "The visual mastery that not only excused but actually elevated the illogic of the first two installments of the trilogy is absent here."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 64/100 "The director employs his entire bag of tricks to keep the audience on the edge of their seats, from shock cuts and loud chords on the soundtrack to performances that devour the scenery."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman "Both the body and the body politic are under attack in Mother of Tears."   House Next Door   Keith Uhlich C ""Mother of Tears" isn't a very good movie, but it is recognizably an Argento film and often what makes it bad makes it entertaining..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/4 "A crude, artless bogey tale. Attempts to position it as a camp masterpiece are misguided and condescending,"   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "Sadly lacking in the baroque atmosphere and visual aesthetic that elevated Argento above the horror hacks."   Film Journal International   Maitland McDonagh C "Another of the horror maestro's futile attempts to recapture the magic that made his seminal '70s giallos so bewitching."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 5/5 "Just as twisted, surprising and gruesome as anything that Argento has given us in the past and a more than worthy successor to its two predecessors."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski "A feeble, incidental continuation of his earlier films."   Not Coming to a Theater Near You   Rumsey Taylor 3.5/5 "A bloody, brutal and oddly amusing little Mother of a flick."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg "Mother of Tears is contrived, confused, clumsy, and quite simply dreadful."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker "... the concluding chapter of Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy dispenses with the overt stylization of its predecessors ... in favor of a sobering dose of realism."   ESplatter   Steve Biodrowski 6/10 "We come to an Argento picture for the surreal, Baroque imagery, and though much here fits those descriptions, there's a great deal of it that's also quite gaudy and goofy and, dare I say, campy."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 52% Rotten Page   1