Mostly Martha
Paramount Classics | Release Date: August 16, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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60
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Becomes precisely the sort of film its elements demand. As tearful goodbyes and joyful montage sequences set to lite-jazz saxophoning take over, "neatly winsome" trumps "messy drama" yet again. Read full review
60
Village VoiceLeslie Camhi
Handsomely shot, German filmmaker Sandra Nettelbeck's third feature suffers from a certain romantic predictability. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The plot unfolds exactly as you expect, but Gedeck imbues Martha with a remarkably subtlety of spirit. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
Nettelbeck's storytelling grace, however, only highlights her clumsy script, which drags the viewer through an all-too-predictable menu of catharsis and romance that can overpower the film’s subtler, more complex flavors. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
If there's nothing here for romantics, there's even less for gourmands. Nettelbeck fails to produce a good food metaphor, let alone an impressive, palate-aching preparation montage Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
It's a drag how Nettelbeck sees working women -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding; there's a puritan, even punitive, cast to the way she sees her character, whose pathology she digs at with the tenacity of a truffle hound. Read full review
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