Abortion: Stories Women Tell
Home Box Office (HBO) | Release Date: August 12, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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90
TheWrapClaudia PuigAug 10, 2016
A deeply personal film about the crisis in reproductive rights that manages to be even-handed, insightful and deeply moving. Read full review
90
Village VoiceAmy BradyAug 9, 2016
This doc is a tearjerker, but it's also enraging. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAug 11, 2016
If there is a through line that unites all the women in Abortion: Stories Women Tell, it’s that they take the potential responsibilities of parenthood very seriously. And no matter how tough and self-reliant they are, this decision is always an impossible one, and one that the outside world's unbending attitudes do not make any easier. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 12, 2016
This is an issue about women’s rights and so this powerful film exclusively listens to the stories that women tell. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayAug 9, 2016
Stories Women Tell does succeed at what it primarily means to do, which is to take abortion out of the realm of the theoretical and make it more personal. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineClayton DillardAug 8, 2016
Tracy Droz Tragos's documentary examines its titular subject with a compassionate eye for regional detail. Read full review
70
The New York TimesHelen T. VerongosAug 11, 2016
What Ms. Tragos succeeds in illustrating is that if you take away the signs and listen to the stories, there is little difference between women on opposite sides of the debate — at least in the region she covers. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 8, 2016
Tracy Droz Tragos works to get beyond us-versus-them simplicity in Abortion: Stories Women Tell, focusing on personal narrative over politics in a humanistic look at an issue that promises to remain divisive for the foreseeable future. Read full review
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