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“Mother Mary” explained: Unraveling Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel's haunting pop star ghost story

This article contains spoilers for Mother Mary. In Mother Mary, David Lowery's haunting new film, a fictional pop star (Anne Hathaway) and a fashion designer (Michaela Coel) dissect their once-close ...
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Anne Hathaway's Mother Mary is a ghost story like no other

“This is not a ghost story,” says on-screen text in the middle of the trailer for David Lowery’s strange new movie Mother Mary. It’s a catchy line. It’s also a little bit strange when that trailer is ...
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‘Mother Mary’ Review: Anne Hathaway Plays a Gaga Pop Star, and Michaela Coel Is Her Designer, in David Lowery’s Thuddingly Pretentious Fantasia

It's a watchable two-hander that turns into a head-scratching ghost story. The talk stretches on for a while, and since the two actors are vivid and on point, we’re fine with settling into one of ...
The New Yorker

“Mother Mary” and the Problem of Small Movies with Big Stars

Like David Lowery’s 2017 film “A Ghost Story,” his new film, “Mother Mary,” is a tale of a haunting that’s set mainly in a single location. With “A Ghost Story,” it was one house in Texas; in “Mother ...
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The divine lessons of “Mother Mary”

Despite ostensibly being about a world-famous pop star mounting a major comeback, David Lowery’s latest film, “Mother Mary,” rarely leaves the confines of the drafty farmhouse it’s set in. There, on a ...