My Son
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: May 10, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMay 9, 2019
[An] engrossing, propulsive film. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMay 10, 2019
My Son finds its cinematic footing in a committed, steady, realism, and that creates a high-wire act of tension and suspense that’s refreshingly clean and consistently effective. Read full review
63
TheWrapRobert AbeleMay 8, 2019
In its modest, stripped-down way, it’s a worthy cousin to the genre stalwarts, anchored in the unvarnished power of Canet’s performance, and the no-nonsense approach to Christian Carion’s direction. Read full review
60
Film ThreatAlex SavelievMay 10, 2019
Carion, along with his co-screenwriter Laure Irrman, leave things annoyingly unexplained – which would be fine in a poetic meditation on loss and grief that purposefully raises more questions than answers, but is indefensible in a neither-here-nor-there pseudo-intellectual thriller. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMay 6, 2019
It’s got a nervously eerie feel to it that’s grounded in Canet’s gripping turn as a dad out to do good for his estranged family. Read full review
50
VarietyMark KeizerMay 9, 2019
Themes of parental guilt and the effects of broken families on children are hinted at early but discarded in favor of genre pleasures, which Carion provides to increasingly formulaic effect. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChuck BowenMay 7, 2019
The film seeks to elevate genre clichés by slowing down the speed with which they’re typically offered. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMay 9, 2019
An endorsement of milquetoast vigilantism that’s not nearly as knotty as it presumes to be, the French thriller “My Son” is so reserved in its storytelling and vague in its details that all it elicits is a yawn. Read full review
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