This would most likely be bumped to a full five stars upon a rewatch but, quite frankly, I will never watch this movie again. My favorite release of 2025 thus far, Bring Her Back is an absolutely brutal, visceral film that sits like a heavy weight on your chest for 99 minutes. 

I truly can’t name anything more horrifying than the loss of a loved one—losing a parent, losing a child—having someone so enshrined in your life and your soul…

Women often wear their hearts on their sleeves. Every micro and macro emotion on their face. Which is why mothers possess a unique, and innate superpower when it comes to protecting their kids. As I’ve grown older I’ve realized just how much my mother shielded me from, not just from the outside world, but from our own tight knit inner family circle where I thought I had perceived so much. And while my mother shouldered and grinned, and truly mothered,…