Mahershala Ali plays a contract killer who carries diapers in his kill kit in Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which premiered at the Toronto film festival.

The two-time Oscar-winner stars as Latif, a solemn hitman whose toolkit includes a blade and baby wipes. The diapers serve a double purpose, according to the Guardian's review: they may soak up pools of blood on the fly, or they may reflect a man who must switch at a moment's notice from his brutal occupation to daddy duties. Perhaps both.

The film, written and directed by Bassam Tariq, builds its central character from "jarring and poetic contradictions," much like the movie itself. Latif, the reviewer writes, "takes lives and nurtures them" — a hitman armed with baby wipes who exists somewhere between killer and caregiver.

Those contradictions surface in the opening moments. An explosive close-quarters brawl in a restroom ends with Latif using the baby wipes to clean up the mess he made with his blade. The Guardian calls it "a lovely image, in a film filled with so many, cutting right through the tension within this character."

The reviewer reads the scene as more than character work: "It also feels like a wink to the audience from Ali and writer/director Bassam Tariq, a way for them to acknowledge right off the top the distracting mess made by that other Blade."

That nod references Ali's long-gestating involvement in Marvel's abandoned Blade reboot, a project whose production troubles dogged the actor for years.

The Guardian describes the film as "a compelling mix of pulpy action and family drama" and praises Ali's soulful performance as an unusual screen killer — one defined less by menace than by grief and fatherhood.

For Tariq, who was briefly attached to direct Marvel's Blade before departing the project, the film functions as a statement of intent: an auteur-driven genre piece that channels pulpy material through intimate family stakes, with a star performance at its center.