"From what? A crazy eight-year-old girl? Give me a break."
Mama may be cliche-ridden, but for the most part it is a solidly-made supernatural thriller with some nice touches and a couple of good jolts, even if the overall effect is just mildly unsettling. In its favour, Mama is lushly shot, the little girls are terrific, the foregrounding of the female characters and motivations is refreshing, and - as the couple who take on the feral girls - Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau are given characters they can work with (rock guitarist and artist respectively) against the usual type who do not expect to be parent figures or caught up in this scenario (Chastain's reaction to the first full reveal of Mama is unusually truthful for this type of movie). Sadly, the narrative wheels fall off towards the oddly-operatic ending, but Mama is one of the better-made entries in this currently-popular genre.
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