premiere in February 2010 as part of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and it received a limited U.S. theatrical release by Magnolia Pictures in March 2010. In March 2015, the film was re-released in the US at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York, as part of their Bong Joon-ho Retrospective (along with Memories of Murder, The Host, and Snowpiercer). A black-and-white version of the film was released in 2013. The film was reported to have been made with a $5 million budget and went on to be the sixth highest grossing film in South Korea in 2009. Critical response On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 96% based on 114 reviews, with an average rating of 7.88/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "As fleshy as it is funny, Bong Joon-Ho's Mother straddles family drama, horror and comedy with a deft grasp of tone and plenty of eerie visuals." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times praised the performance by Kim Hye-ja and described the film as "alternately dazzling and frustrating". Top ten lists Mother appeared on many film critics' "best-of" lists of 2010. 2nd – Reverse Shot 2nd – Frank Paiva, MSN Movies 4th – Noel Murray, The A.V. Club 4th – Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice 4th – Jim Emerson, MSN Movies 5th – Slant Magazine 7th – Kim Morgan, MSN Movies 7th – Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle 8th – Keith Philipps, The A.V. Club 8th – Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club 10th – Tasha Robinson, The A.V. Club 10th – Cahiers du cinéma Not ranked – Anthony Lane, The New Yorker Not ranked – Dana Stevens, Slant Magazine Not ranked – Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal Adaptation The core plot of the 2022 Kannada film Love 360 directed by Shashank was inspired from this film. Awards and nominations The film was selected as South Korea's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. References External links 2009 films 2009 drama films 2000s crime drama films Films directed by Bong Joon-ho Films with screenplays by Bong Joon-ho Films set in South Korea 2000s Korean-language films South Korean crime drama films