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  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious. [Part of Amazon's Welcome to the Blumhouse series]

Directed By: Ryan Zaragoza

Written By: Marcella Ochoa, Mario Miscione

  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 23 m

Madres

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
43
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
4.2
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Summary A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious. [Part of Amazon's Welcome to the Blumhouse series]

Directed By: Ryan Zaragoza

Written By: Marcella Ochoa, Mario Miscione

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
43
20% Positive
1 Review
40% Mixed
2 Reviews
40% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
43
20% Positive
1 Review
40% Mixed
2 Reviews
40% Negative
2 Reviews

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80
Oct 7, 2021
Madres never loses a strong underpinning of social conscience that seeps into director Ryan Zaragoza’s considered shots.
By Phil Hoad FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 7, 2021
A subdued score and some by-the-book camerawork can make this urgent story drag, but what it lacks in sting it makes up for with an original script (by Marcella Ochoa and Mario Miscione) and a ferociously pregnant protagonist who would make the “Fargo” character Marge Gunderson proud.
By Lena Wilson FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 12, 2021
Didactic in its approach to the material—which, to be clear, is absolutely horrifying and very real—Madres has some good ideas, but it fails to see the structural forest for the sumptuously photographed trees.
By Katie Rife FULL REVIEW
25
Oct 8, 2021
Calling a movie like Madres by-the-numbers would be a compliment, and an overstatement, because that would indicate that the makers were even mildly successful.
By Nick Allen FULL REVIEW
20
Oct 15, 2021
Madres is extremely fragmented and painfully subpar, wasting a chance to tell an intriguing, nuanced story that is still an issue in the present.
By Mae Abdulbaki FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
4.2
20% Positive
1 Rating
40% Mixed
2 Ratings
40% Negative
2 Ratings

User Reviews

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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20% Positive
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40% Mixed
2 Ratings
40% Negative
2 Ratings

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Production Company Amazon Studios, Blumhouse Productions, Marginal Mediaworks
Release Date Oct 8, 2021
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Imagen Foundation Awards
• 2 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Nomination

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