Take Care of Maya
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): June 19, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
72
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJun 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
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJun 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
70
Rolling StoneChris VognarJun 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
67
IndieWireKate ErblandJun 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
40
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanJun 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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