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Toronto Film Festival Review: 'Your Mother' Starring Mahershala Ali

Updated 2026-09-13 16:55 UTC 1 source Neutral

At the Toronto Film Festival, critics reviewed ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother,’ a drama starring Mahershala Ali as a philosophical Black Muslim hitman. The film received mixed reactions.

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‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ Review: Mahershala Ali Is The Glue That Binds A Dour Texas-Set Action Drama – Toronto Film Festival

Everything and nothing seems to happen in this curiously inert action drama, which stars Mahershala Ali as a philosophical Black Muslim hitman trying to raise three children after the death of his wife. The concept itself not without precedent — Forrest Whitaker calmly practised Tai Chi and composed

2026-09-13 16:52 UTC