Take Care of Maya

Name: Take Care of Maya
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 19, 2023
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 64

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): June 19, 2023 | TV-14

Summary: When 10-year-old Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016, nothing could have prepared her or her family for what they were about to go through. As the medical team tried to understand her rare illness, they began to question the basic truths that bound the Kowalskis together. Suddenly, Maya was in stateWhen 10-year-old Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016, nothing could have prepared her or her family for what they were about to go through. As the medical team tried to understand her rare illness, they began to question the basic truths that bound the Kowalskis together. Suddenly, Maya was in state custody – despite two parents who were desperate to bring their daughter home. The story of the Kowalski family – as told in their own words – will change the way you look at children’s healthcare forever.… Expand

Director: Henry Roosevelt

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 103 min

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jun 20, 2023

This wrenching documentary—culminating with commentary from some of the 100 other families who contacted director Roosevelt with similar tales of false-abuse-allegations woe—gives captivating voice to their sorrow and outrage. Read full review

Chris Vognar

Jun 20, 2023

With the hospital and its primary representative in the case, Dr. Sally Smith, refusing to cooperate with the filmmakers, Take Care of Maya is necessarily one-sided. That side is rendered with sympathy and sensitivity, and a lingering, frustratingly unanswered question: How exactly does something like this happen? Read full review

Noel Murray

Jun 23, 2023

An absorbing and challenging film, capturing the frustration of being held in limbo by a system that seems to prioritize punishment over appeals. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Jun 20, 2023

That sense of a story rendered incomplete, of answers we may never fully know, is at the heart of the Kowalskis’ story, but Roosevelt’s film is unable to square that with the constraints and demands of a feature film. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Jun 20, 2023

Take Care of Maya is grueling, but it is also oddly deficient, wanting for the precision and perspective essential to deriving insight from profound trauma. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Jul 2, 2023

The documentary itself is quite practical and covers the incredibly **** up case very well, but a part of me felt that it was too passive in its interest in not taking a critical side of the events that occurred and the people involved.

However, it is worth it. Especially for digging into aThe documentary itself is quite practical and covers the incredibly **** up case very well, but a part of me felt that it was too passive in its interest in not taking a critical side of the events that occurred and the people involved.

However, it is worth it. Especially for digging into a reality that should scare several parents.… Expand

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