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    ‘The Good Mother’ review: The real mystery? Hilary Swank’s bad luck with screenplays

    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 ...
    by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Aug 31, 2023 2 minutes
    Jack Reynor in a scene from "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

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