Pieces of a Woman
Netflix | Release Date: December 30, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
12
Negative:
2
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60
Screen DailyLee MarshallSep 12, 2020
As fragmented as its title suggests, Pieces of a Woman contains parts of a good film, possibly a great one. Read full review
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The GuardianXan BrooksSep 12, 2020
Viewed as an acting masterclass, the film is bruisingly impressive in its way. The principal actors raise the roof; each gets to do their big turn for the camera. But it feels a little schooled, a little staged, like a workshop at the Actors’ Studio. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 12, 2020
After the implosive force of those first 30 minutes, the rest of the movie can’t help but feel like a self-defeating scavenger hunt through the rubble. Read full review
50
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenMar 25, 2021
When Pieces of a Woman is at its best, it’s focusing on this traumatized couple and how neither knows how to make room for the other’s grieving process, partly because their respective processes conflict. Unfortunately the movie wants to be so much more. Read full review
50
UproxxVince ManciniJan 14, 2021
Pieces Of A Woman, is proof that arthouse filmmakers still haven’t tired of exploring grief. Read full review
50
TimeStephanie ZacharekJan 8, 2021
Movies about tough subjects don’t need to be torture, and if Pieces of a Woman proves anything, it’s that too much is sometimes also not enough. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJan 7, 2021
In Pieces of a Woman Kirby never seems to be building up artificial climaxes or big reveals; she works on a quieter, truer level. Too much going on around her ends up working against her. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreJan 7, 2021
It’s Kirby who makes this worth watching, and even that performance is nothing anyone would call “warm.” If “The Queen” and a “Mission:Impossible” villain didn’t make her a star, this certainly will. It’s all the “pieces” around her that let down this “woman.” Read full review
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The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Sep 16, 2020
Everyone here is stuck in a movie that never lets its emotions breathe, in no small part because its director insists on gussying up a small character drama with plus-sized gestures. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubBeatrice LoayzaDec 21, 2020
The result is a clichéd maelstrom of psychological turmoil and empty outpourings of feeling. The film is uninterested in the inner world it claims to investigate; it also cheapens a woman’s trauma by rendering her pain into a confused dramatic spectacle. Read full review
40
CineVueChristopher MachellJan 8, 2021
There are glimmers of a more complex, empathetic film here: the main cast do fine work with what they’ve got and the film’s apparent detachment from its characters mirrors the empty indifference that often characterises depression. But any potential for complexity is undone by the film’s tacky reveals, mawkish speechifying and its often spiteful approach to its own characters. Read full review
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The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 30, 2020
The film is like an intensively bred hothouse flower that can’t exist in the open air. Read full review
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