Direction: Bassam Tariq
Country: USA
Written, directed, and co-produced by Pakistani-born American filmmaker Bassam Tariq, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is an entertaining action thriller that takes a chaotic plunge into underground crime, religion, and violent cults in a grim, multicultural setting. The story revolves around Latif, played by Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, 2016; Leave the World Behind, 2023), a devout Muslim and remorseless hitman who faces a crisis of faith following the loss of his wife and the urgent need to find a breast milk donor for his baby daughter.
In his sophomore feature, Tariq deliberately embraces a Tarantino-esque style, relying on kinetic action sequences, dramatic stakes, and moral ambiguity to drive the story forward. Films such as Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) and Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri (1962) are cited as influences, and the film ultimately brims with offbeat tones, bitter irony, and a keen sense of its own absurdity.
Though this tale of revenge and forgiveness can be gripping at times, it flows like a somewhat opaque and tumultuous river. Just don’t expect anything particularly original.
