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Movie review: Jennifer Lopez hits target dead center in ‘The Mother’

Well-directed by the chronically underrated Niki Caro (“Whale Rider,” “North Country,” “McFarland USA”), although generically written by Andrea Berloff (“Blood Father”), Peter Craig (“Top Gun: Maverick”) and Misha Green (“Lovecraft Country”), “The Mother,” which arrived just in time for Mother’s Day, is a by-the-books save-a-child thriller set in some violent world of cloak-and-dagger.

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