My Mother Likes Women
Norador Productions | Release Date: May 21, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2
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80
VarietyJonathan Holland
Lightness of touch, vibrant performances and a sharp script are the hallmarks of this delightful femme comedy. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Wins you over with this bright sense of humor and its gentle, welcome message of tolerance and acceptance. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
As My Mother Likes Women gallops along, it picks up speed and takes its characters on a whirlwind tour of Prague before rushing back home. As it accelerates, its texture thins and its story turns strained and eager to please. But it never loses its cheeky sense of humor about love and the havoc it can wreak. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Comes across as Almodovar lite, but the film, from director-screenwriters Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman, offers some pleasures along the way, including an engaging performance by Leonor Watling ("Talk to Her"). Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The Spanish writers-directors often overreach for humor, and really overreach for a happy ending. But there's a strong heart beating beneath the foolishness and one wonderful performance from Leonor Watling. Read full review
60
Village VoiceJorge Morales
Fortunately, Leonor Watling (who spent most of "Talk to Her" in a coma) plays the spectacularly neurotic middle daughter with dizzying abandon and single-handedly saves the day. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
PAGING Pedro Almodovar! We have a movie badly in need of your help. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
In fact it ends, as all good romantic comedies do, with a wedding, though the identities of the newly married couple might be the least predictable thing about this cheerfully ham-fisted celebration of love and family in modern-day Madrid. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
For a movie with a lesbian theme, My Mother Likes Women is absurdly coy about gay sex. It may be the most heterosexually minded film about lesbians ever made. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Wants keenly to be hip and modern, but really it's just an old-fashioned drawing-room comedy. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
Cloying mix of screwball comedy and drama. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
We do learn that love heals and that the movie's title makes a terrifically lewd little rock song. (Thank you, Sol.) But that's about it. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
It goes down easy, with likable performances and a laudable emphasis on love and compassion. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Zips along on smooth formula plotting and some energetic performances, but its farcical elements have the tepid rhythm of a bad situation comedy, with silly misunderstandings and embarrassing moments that could have easily been avoided. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
What's troubling about "My Mother" is not the way the sisters respond to the news, but the way that Paris and Fejerman have opted to make lighthearted comic fodder out of the daughters' responses. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
The attempt to find humor in mean-spiritedness is way beyond Paris and Fejerman's abilities, and their last-reel attempt to portray Sofia as an ultimately liberating force for her daughters is as contrived as My Mother Likes Women is repellent. Read full review
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