Mother Mary review – Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel are lost in ludicrous pop star drama (opens in new tab)

Music from Charli xcx can’t save David Lowery’s dour chamber piece, despite some flashes of dazzling styleFor a certain stripe of pop fan, diva worship comes along with having a high tolerance for their unique flavor of psychobabble. So when Anne Hathaway, as the titular singer in David Lowery’s Mother Mary, declares that her new single Spooky Action is about Einstein’s “transubstantiation of feelings”, I ignored the snorts from those in the theater beside me. Finally, I thought, fondly casti...