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For a passive-aggressive Mother’s Day gift, I recommend taking your mom to the film of the same name. If you haven’t quite found the present that says, “Mom, I hate you for bringing me into the world,” this is the (movie) ticket. Somehow inferior to both its celebratory predecessors “New Year’s Eve” and “Valentine’s Day,” Garry Marshall’s “Mother’s Day” is the cinematic equivalent of spilling boiling hot coffee on your mother when you bring her burnt toast for breakfast in bed.
The film begins with Meghan Trainor singing, “You might have a mom. She might be the bomb,” and it still manages to get worse from there. Focusing on four mothers, Jennifer Aniston plays Sandy, a divorced mom of two boys who is surprised to learn that her ex (Timothy Olyphant) has eloped with a much...
