mother! (2017)

Jennifer Lawrence is serenely renovating the home she shares with writer husband Javier Bardem when Ed Harris shows up and starts impeding on their lives, bringing his family and then more and more people with him. I had been fairly certain when this film was released that it would not be my type of thing, but eventually I caved and discovered I was correct in my initial assumption. I enjoy most of director Darren Aronofsky’s work, but is him at his most arty pretentiousness. Very heavy in allegory, particularly of the biblical variety, it does not allow a moment to breath by constantly inundating the viewer with brutality forced onto Lawrence’s character all for the sake of blatant metaphor.