with Michael Goi and Anthony Jaswinski unwilling to explore a kinky, psychosexual bond between a man and his demonic lady ghost-boat, "Mary" comes to feel as if lacks a through line, collapsing into a series of disconnected horror-movie beats
Michael Goi is big on jump shocks that get increasingly tiresome; The screenplay, besides giving the actors no characters whatsoever to play, is also overly familiar; In "Mary", a great cast (including Gary Oldman) wastes their time in soggy horror film
Gary Oldman's haunted-boat tale is neither sea- nor scare-worthy; Emily Mortimer struggles to keep the film afloat, despite a script that underserves the characters and the chills; the whole film plays like an extended non sequitur
by Chuck Bowen [Slant Magazine ]
by Randy Cordova [Arizona Republic ]
