The Midwife
Music Box Films | Release Date: July 21, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
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15
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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60
Total FilmJames MottramAug 11, 2017
With recriminations turning to compassion, the film sings when these French titans share the screen, Deneuve’s loose cannon a mixture of hedonism and terror. If only the other scenes were as compelling. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 20, 2017
It is a very good idea for a two-hander, and Frot and Deneuve give it their considerable all. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyJul 20, 2017
It’s Deneuve who musses up the formula and makes the film worth seeing, by generously bringing out her inner vulgarian. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 20, 2017
What do you call a movie about a midlife non-crisis? How about tame, competent, mildly touching, and a little dull — except for Catherine Deneuve's fearless turn as a boozing, ailing wreck. Read full review
60
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJul 20, 2017
Because it is a French film, or rather the kind of French film that wants to serve its sentimentality with a dollop of prestige, The Midwife doesn’t offer an entirely shameless version of the “dying free spirit imbues uptight caretaker with a new lust for life” scenario. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovSep 13, 2017
There’s not a whole lot new here in this story of rival lifestyles and familial skeletons, but just allowing yourself to immerse yourself in the initially catty melodrama is pleasure enough. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJul 20, 2017
The Midwife has two things going for it: Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve. There’s no disputing the quality of acting in this film, at least insofar as the leads are concerned. Unfortunately, almost everything else in Martin Provost’s staid character study falls considerably short of the bar set by the two Catherines. Read full review
40
TheWrapDan CallahanJul 19, 2017
The bothersome and irritating thing about the way The Midwife is written is that we keep hearing detail after detail and story after story about the shared history between Claire and Béatrice, but we never get a solid idea of what that history was. Read full review
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