Review: ‘Mother/Android’

Post-apocalyptic stories are fast reaching the point of ubiquity, making it even harder for a writer or director to bring anything to the table that hasn’t been seen or done before at least a handful of times already. What makes Mother/Android stand out from the pack, though, is that it’s an end-of-the-world sci-fi thriller that also doubles as an intensely personal story for writer and first-time feature director Mattson Tomlin.

As an infant, the future writer of Netflix smash hit Project Power and Matt Reeves’ The Batman was given up by his biological Romanian parents in 1989 during the country’s revolution, which helped shape him into the man he is today. Taking essentially the same concept and melding it onto an ambitious road trip narrative with plenty of twists and turns, Mother/Android is an ambitious debut, if not always a completely successful one.