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Metascore
30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaArizona RepublicRandy CordovaPerhaps because the bar was set so low, Mother’s Day turns out to be surprisingly watchable.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreAn ensemble holiday comedy packed with all the sappy sentimentality and mawkish manipulation that only the old master, Garry Marshall would dare give it.
- 38The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldThe Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldIt’s a lazy movie that fades from memory the instant the credits start to roll; a blandly pretty cog in a studio wheel. Moms deserve better. So do moviegoers.
- 30Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMother’s Day, the movie, feels as contrived and inauthentic as the holiday itself.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe Hollywood ReporterJon FroschMother’s Day is bad from the start, and it doesn't get better.
- 25Chicago TribuneKatie WalshChicago TribuneKatie WalshMother's Day is a total mess, but what's truly offensive is that they didn't even try to make this cynical, post-Sunday brunch cash grab even remotely watchable. Your mom deserves so much better this Mother's Day. Go see "The Meddler" instead.
- 25Washington PostJen ChaneyWashington PostJen ChaneyDespite an army of appealing actors in its large ensemble cast, the rom-com Mother’s Day is startlingly unappealing. Clumsily edited and culturally tone deaf, it’s more obsessed with the titular holiday than even most mothers would find reasonable.
- 12RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiNone of the actors are able to find a way to rise above the material, instead just plowing through in the broadest manner possible while trying not to look too obviously embarrassed.
- 0Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNothing could have prepared us for the offensively stupid, shamelessly manipulative, ridiculously predictable and hopelessly dated crapfest that is Mother’s Day.
- 0VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerAtrociously written, begrudgingly acted, haphazardly assembled and never more backward than when it thinks it’s being progressive.