Review: Mother

Bong Joon-ho's new film Mother is a hard one to pin down. On the surface, the South Korean filmmaker, who successfully toyed with genre conventions in The Host and Memories of Murder, has created a classic sleuth story. The story of a devoted mother who attempts to prove her son's innocence  after he is arrested of murder is also surprisingly funny, suspense-filled, engrossing, and also confusing in the best of ways.

Mother is now playing in theaters. Read Marcy's review.