The Mother

The Mother follows a woman who has spent years living in hiding, having left her daughter behind as an infant because her life as a professional assassin could not accommodate a child. When dangerous figures from her past resurge, both she and the now-teenage girl she gave up are drawn back into the same conflict, and the mother must use the skills she abandoned in order to keep her daughter alive.

Jennifer Lopez plays the lead, with Lucy Paez as her daughter Zoe, and Omari Hardwick, Joseph Fiennes, Gael García Bernal and Paul Raci in supporting roles. Niki Caro directed the film, working from a screenplay by Peter Craig, Andrea Berloff and Misha Green; Lopez also produced alongside Roy Lee and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas. It was Caro's sixth feature, arriving after Whale Rider, North Country, McFarland, USA, The Zookeeper's Wife and Mulan, and it was released in May 2023.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 5.6 from around 53,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.6 from roughly 1,500 votes, a somewhat warmer audience response on the latter. A critics' rating of 5.1 from 114 reviews places it below both audience scores. Produced for a reported 43 million dollars, it drew a sizable viewing audience, reflected in the substantial IMDb vote count.