Published Apr 26, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT

In Mother Mary, David Lowery seems fixated on the less horrific dimension to ghost-like entities

The man behind The Green Knight has delivered a ghost story like no other

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“This is not a ghost story,” says on-screen text in the middle of the trailer for David Lowery’s strange new movie Mother Mary . It’s a catchy line. It’s also a little bit strange when that trailer is for a movie whose director made a movie literally called A Ghost Story . (We get it, Lowery’s fans might say to themselves. This is not a Pete’s Dragon , either.) Actually watching Mother Mary in the context of Lowery’s other work, however, clarifies that sentence, even if it’s ultimately just good marketing. At this point, Lowery has made several movies that feature ghosts without resorting to many familiar trappings of haunting narratives.…