I'm Your Woman
Amazon Studios | Release Date (Streaming): December 4, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
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Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
95
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeOct 16, 2020
It’s an exciting ride, but with a wallop of genuine feeling underneath that makes it one of this year’s best films. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangDec 4, 2020
[A] beautiful, engrossing and potently subversive new crime thriller. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyDec 10, 2020
A slow burn, sometimes to a fault, I’m Your Woman proudly revives a type of old-fashioned cinema with something new to say. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 10, 2020
With spare and precise dialogue that often sounds inspired by Dashiell Hammett, a labyrinthine story with a few heart-stopping twists and pitch-perfect performances by Brosnahan and the supporting cast, this is one of the best movies of the year. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnOct 15, 2020
I’m Your Woman owes much to Brosnahan’s evolving performance as she goes from terrified housewife to trenchant survivalist over the course movie, and the movie consolidates the strengths of Hart’s previous work. Read full review
80
EmpireChristina NewlandDec 17, 2020
This stylish, quietly suspenseful crime film offers a rejoinder to the typical macho ’70s genre, focusing on the female experience in a compelling, nuanced way. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenDec 19, 2020
Brosnahan trades in the quick quips of Mrs. Maisel for a quieter intelligence and vulnerable uncertainty. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanDec 10, 2020
I’m Your Woman isn’t so much off-kilter as it is ballasted by a different, perhaps lower center of gravity. The title sounds exploitative — perhaps even silly — but the tale it spins is one of power and, ultimately, of coming unexpectedly, satisfyingly, into one’s own. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshDec 2, 2020
Hart and Horowitz map this hero’s journey onto her growth as a mother, her empowerment proving to be a source not just of strength, but love — a rare commodity in a crime flick. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonOct 16, 2020
I’m Your Woman benefits greatly from its off-kilter rhythms and intuitive digressions, even if it can be tonally uneven and a little obvious thematically at times. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeDec 4, 2020
Hart’s isn’t the first movie to reframe the tough-guy crime movie from a woman’s perspective; in fact, the concept has become something of a theme over the past couple of years, producing both great films and ones that are, well, not so great. I’m Your Woman sails right down the middle. Read full review
67
The Film StageOrla SmithDec 2, 2020
We’ve seen this story from the husband’s point of view a million times, women like Jean relegated to the sidelines and rarely revisited once they’re sent away. It’s a welcome perspective shift; unfortunately, Hart’s slow burn doesn’t have enough fuel to grab your attention beyond an intriguing premise. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrDec 10, 2020
Hart is interested in scrambling our sympathies yet not deft enough to manage where they land, and the female buddy movie I’m Your Woman wants to be unintentionally ends up feeling like a story about a Black couple as seen by their less interesting white acquaintance. Read full review
63
The Associated PressJake CoyleDec 4, 2020
When it’s at its best, I’m Your Woman feels like you’ve slipped through a trap door, revealing a hidden pathway in an old genre apparatus. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Simran HansDec 13, 2020
Reorienting a typically white male genre around themes of feminist awakening and racial tension is an intriguing proposition, so it’s frustrating that Brosnahan remains blank and the film’s pace plodding. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneClaire ShafferDec 10, 2020
If you’re willing to be patient, the characters become richer, the narrative takes more risks and the set pieces are more enthralling, like an engrossing disco sequence and a lumbering car chase in giant, period-accurate sedans. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeOct 20, 2020
Even when it’s coasting, the cast still works hard to sell what they’re given and it remains visually handsome until the very end, an immersive and slickly captured last-act car chase proving a standout. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenOct 16, 2020
The drama works only in fits and starts. The vague danger that shapes it, and the narrative's underlying emotional intricacies, are too often explained rather than felt. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJan 12, 2021
Conversation is pause-heavy; smiles are fleeting and tight with anxiety; the plot is a knot. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleJenny NulfDec 11, 2020
At a two-hour run time, Hart attempts to make you feel every moment, but most of these plotless, meandering moments just seem to feel empty. The magic never clicks, and this rich-looking, Seventies-set thriller ends up feeling more like a drag on an unlit cigarette than a burn. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzDec 9, 2020
Unfortunately, Hart and her co-writer/husband Jordan Horowitz don’t have much more to offer than a different perspective – and no POV shift can compensate for a film that looks otherwise so familiar in its twists and turns. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattOct 16, 2020
If wallpaper and polyester were any metric to judge a movie by, I'm Your Woman could have been a masterpiece. Read full review
40
The New York TimesGlenn KennyDec 3, 2020
The movie’s vagueness wants to appear purposeful, reflecting Jean’s disorientation, but it’s mostly confounding. Brosnahan, when she’s not playing panicked, largely enacts Jean as an irritated cipher. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChuck BowenNov 29, 2020
Julia Hart drains the crime film genre of its macho bluster without replacing it with anything. Read full review
30
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 16, 2020
This is the kind of movie where the most dynamic thing in every scene is the art direction, followed by the natty retro costumes (which Jean must have used the cash to buy, since she didn’t have time to pack), and only then comes the people. Read full review
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