This crime drama is a strange, tentative beast: It overpacks in the early going, and then dog-paddles around, pausing for scenes of Hilary Swank's character drinking, thinking, driving, ruminating, watching.
Hilary Swank plays a hard-luck Albany reporter in"The Good Mother."
We’ve seen this regularly at the start of crime dramas: The establishing shot of a downtown cityscape, from the vantage point of a drone camera, taking it all in. In “The Good Mother,” that “all” is Albany, New York, and the foreground welter of freeways is backed by one of the more unassuming skylines in screen history. “Albany noir” is the phrase the director and co-writer of “The Good Mother,” Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, applies to his 2016-set mystery, starring Hilary Swankas Marissa, a Times Union reporter living under a cloud of loss, alcohol and grief.Marissa’s husband: dead five years now.
These are extremely busy opening minutes. Then the rhythm relaxes, to the point of going horizontal. The story in “The Good Mother” leads to a wary alliance between Marissa and Paige as they set out to find Michael’s killer, known only by a menacing tattoo on his hand. They’re assisted by Marissa’s older son , an Albany police officer, likewise about to become a parent. He suspects the culprit is Michael’s drug dealer pal Ducky.
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