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    "parsed_content": "What to Watch70 Movies This Fall\u2018Primetime\u2019\u2018Unabomber\u2019\u2018Never After Dark\u2019\u2018Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother\u2019AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTCritic\u2019s Pick\u2018Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother\u2019 Review: Faith and FightingMahershala Ali stars as a deeply religious hit man seeking redemption.Listen \u00b7 4:16 min Share full articleMahershala Ali, center, as Latif in \u201cYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother.\u201dCredit...Jaclyn Martinez\/Amazon MGM StudiosBy Alissa WilkinsonSept. 24, 2026Your Mother Your Mother Your MotherNYT Critic\u2019s PickDirected by Bassam TariqAction, Crime, Drama, ThrillerR1h 51mFind TicketsWhen you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Even with some notable exceptions, it is still unusual to see a deeply religious character portrayed onscreen as three-dimensional, with complicated and conflicting motives. Instead, they\u2019re frequently relegated to minor roles \u2014 a kindly adviser, a family member, a crazy guy on the sidewalk \u2014 or painted as singularly driven by their faith, as if belief erases human impulses.So \u201cYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother,\u201d written and directed by Bassam Tariq, is refreshing in its own way: a bloody action movie about Latif (Mahershala Ali), a Houston contract killer who is equally propelled by his dedication to his Muslim faith and his love for his children. His wife has recently died, leaving him with their teenage daughter Fatiha (an excellent Adia), preteen son Qadir (Jahleel Kamara) and infant daughter, who won\u2019t drink formula. But Latif\u2019s wife\u2019s frozen breast milk is running out.Latif first seeks contributions from the women at his mosque, which is led by Abdul Malik (Giancarlo Esposito). But in desperation, he ends up casting the net wider. Through the \u201cking of Habibi porn\u201d (Abubakr Ali), he locates a breastfeeding sex worker (Tiffany Boone). But it turns out she has been \u201cliberated\u201d by Pastor Hwan Yoon (John Cho), an Iraq war vet who\u2019s become the cartoonishly over-the-top leader of a church that also might be a Christian nationalist militia. He wears a gold grill and a cowboy hat and seems to worship guns as much as God. And he\u2019s ready to lead his flock against Latif\u2019s people, just as Latif is compelled by necessity to make some painful decisions about whom he protects, and how.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother Save to your watch list:Want to watchHave seen\u201cYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother\u201d \u2014 the title comes from an Islamic hadith \u2014 portrays the underworld in which Latif moves as gritty and lurid, with danger and sin around every corner. But it is equally compelling in its depiction of Houston, one of America\u2019s most diverse cities, in which distinct ethnic, cultural and religious groups live alongside one another. The film crackles with tension as a result. Yet it also occupies the fertile space created when people show each other love and mercy. Communities care for their own, even when sometimes that care becomes corrupted by people hungry for money and power.At the center of the movie is Ali, and it\u2019s hard to imagine anyone else in the role. (He and Tariq were originally attached to Marvel\u2019s \u201cBlade\u201d movie, which never came to fruition; they brought some of their research from that film to this one.) He\u2019s a familiar kind of figure: the reluctant killer with rigid morals in the rest of his life, pulled back into a web of violence for the love of his family. (Watching the movie, you might think about \u201cJohn Wick,\u201d and you wouldn\u2019t be wrong.) But his religious devotion, so at odds with his work and his community, imbues Latif with internal conflict that\u2019s written all over Ali\u2019s face.With elegant fight choreography and richly textured images shot by Katelin Arizmendi, \u201cYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother\u201d lives a notch above most action films. While Ali spins and kicks and kills like a particularly lethal dancer, this is as much a character piece as a movie about killing. It is, however, shockingly graphic in places, which can slow down the storytelling; I found myself drifting at times.When it\u2019s in its rhythm, though, it\u2019s a great story. Latif is haunted by a question familiar to anyone who believes in something bigger than themselves. Can we be forgiven for the worst things we have done? Does grace extend to our darkest hour? That he\u2019s seeking answers to these questions in the strange, heightened world of an American city makes the movie all the more engrossing.Your Mother Your Mother Your MotherRated R for lots of violence, blood and the underbelly of the city. Running time: 1 hour 51 minutes. In theaters.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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