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20th Century Women
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3.8
20th Century Women proves that Mike Mills is the real deal, that his previous success story was not a fluke but the announcement of an exciting new vo ..
Av Club
4.5
The movie doesnt delve into the politics of the time as much as some might like, though it does create a definitive portrayal of 1979 and mentions how ..
Den Of Geek
4.2
But this one is funny, and not just sweet.And where Beginners got snagged in its constant skipping between the fight with cancer and the rubble thats ..
Indie Wire
3.0
But it is a standard coming of age narrative, more concerned with the growth of the boy than with the lives of the titular women.
We Got This Covered
4.0
Because what I mean to say is, this movie is delightful funny and dreamy and sometimes desperately sad.
Austin Chronicle
4.5
Does that sound too dry Because what I mean to say is, this movie is delightful funny and dreamy and sometimes desperately sad.
Austin Chronicle
4.0
When 20th Century Women concerns itself with the utterly human question of personal satisfaction, its huggable: the kind of movie you wish more direct ..
Time Out
3.5
Theres a refreshingly unresolved quality to 20th Century Women that creates room for audiences to be undecided in their opinion of any of the characte ..
Screen Daily
4.0
Its chaotic, messy and genuinely heartfeltjust as love itself is.
Collider
4.5
Women doesnt chart the major coming of age moments, but this film is certainly the next step in Mike Mills (Beginners) coming of age as a filmmaker.
Collider
5.0
Its a good thing that when Bening connects with a role, a screenwriter doesnt need to give you signposts.
Vulture
3.9
That clarity extends, somewhat paradoxically, to that aforementioned discursive storytelling style.
Paste Magazine
5.0
You never ever know what theyre going to do next.You never know whats going to happen next.
Rogerebert
4.5
The real tragedy of the film and its characters is that they dont understand how futile of an effort that really is.
IGN
5.0
Bening neither hogs the film nor ever seems like the sole point of it, which is maybe how a performance this nuanced and glorious slips through the cr ..
Telegraph
4.3
Its charm comes entirely from its characters, and the stellar actors behind them.
The Young Folks
4.0
Its even a little disconcerting and overwhelming at first, as 20th Century Women struggles to develop an engaging cohesion, and instead seems to blur ..
Cinema Blend
4.0
Bening is even better.Like her old fashioned name, Dorothea is a little out of step with the times; you get the idea shes been trying to get her groov ..
Ny Daily News
5.0
Indeed, Bening often makes you feel sorry for Dorothea until the actress slaps you silly.
The Globe And Mail
4.5
This former hippie and potter astonishes everyone with his laid back and let live philosophy of life.
Spirituality And Practice
2.8
Its essentially an autobiographical coming of age movie, one that includes a good many affecting moments but, in the last analysis, doesnt manage to b ..
One Guys Opinion
3.0
Despite the movies title and Benings central role, women are oddly peripheral.
Village Voice
3.8
And as its title suggests, its a real showcase for three generations of the best American actresses in the business, women of feelings and heart and s ..
Rogers Movie Nation
4.2
The film focuses on three women in Santa Barbara in 1979 who set out to teach the teen son of one of them how to be a man.
Blu Ray
3.1
20th Century Women (2016) 2 1/2 Stars (out of 4) Tweet Love in a Void By Jeffrey M. Anderson Annette Bening stars and will probably be considered for ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.0
Mills digs deep into the era, with the mother struggling to make sense of punk rock; the film has the feel of a memoir, in both its effortless authent ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
The distinction is one of the movies central focus.As much as Mills attempts to balance the boys story with the womens stories, the weight of Jamies t ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
The result is, like the characters, a little aimless but extremely likeable.
News Review
4.0
Moments of dreamy existentialism sit ill with the irreverent tone but Bening is a hoot as the capricious protagonist and theres room for her co stars ..
Radio Times
3.0
Typically, though, even at its most nostalgic, 20th Century Women never loses its ironic humour or its habit of questioning and analysing everyones be ..
Independent
4.4
Rarely has a film so ingeniously blended cultural artifacts into its storytelling DNA.
Rolling Stone
3.5
The concept album that is Arethas Gold follows the chronology of Aretha Franklins hits, all released in 1967 and 1968, apex years of the decade not ju ..
Pop Matters
4.0
But 20th Century Women mainly overcomes its flaws through the sheer imaginative sensitivity of Millss writing.
The Wrap
3.5
Has Annette Bening ever given a bad performance.Ive been unable to recall a single one.
Cs Monitor
4.5
But nothing alters the fact that this is a fascinating, funny and important film.
Film Journal
4.0
Theres a certain arch self awareness in the screenwriting that wont appeal to everyone, but I loved the film for its scrapbook structure, its warmth a ..
The Guardian
2.0
Exasperatingly supercilious and smug unfocused, self consciously cute, nostalgic and empathetic, but never properly funny. It feels like someone elses ..
The Guardian
4.0
Its messy and awkward and who knows how effective, but her intentions are good.
Az Central
3.5
M, 119 minutes There is something inescapably American about Mike Mills 20th Century Women.Its packed with people afflicted with an irresistible urge ..
Smh
4.0
Detail packed but never dull, with dialogue that absolutely sings and characters we want to stay with forever, its the kind of work that begs revisiti ..
Npr
3.8
The films greatest strength is its specific set of characters. While no big events or personal crises happen, no one seems two dimensional or thin.
Star Tribune
5.0
The movie is a wonderful character driven offering with first rate acting by a very strong cast.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.0
But therein lie my reservations about Fences: as an over heated domestic melodrama it is a showcase for great acting, but it is far from a great film. ..
Daily Mail
4.2
Plotwise, Women is a wisp; as a mood piece, though, its almost irresistibly rich.
Ew
4.0
The promiscuous Julie is something of a stale character but Fanning is captivating as a restless soul.
Flim List
4.0
Artfully shot and structured, while its warmth and wit shine as brightly as the Californian sun.
Empire
3.5
Susan Grangers review of 20th Century Women (A24) Set in 1979, writer/director Mike Mills weaves an intriguing tale about Dorothea Fields (Annette Ben ..
Susang Ranger
4.0
This indie dramedy isnt your average movie which is another way of saying its fantastic.
Common Sense Media
3.8
At times, it eschews drama.Every time the story is on a knife edge and can drop deeper into turmoil or recede back to the normal flows and ebbs of lif ..
Sf Gate
4.0
Gerwig, in particular, one of the most imaginative actors of the time, a virtual reinventor of the art of acting, here seems constrained by the movies ..
New Yorker
2.5
Its 1979, and everything is in flux.Ayatollah Khomeini assumes power in Iran; Margaret Thatcher becomes the British Prime Minister; and, in Santa Barb ..
New Yorker
3.8
But the privileging of auteurist omniscience feels at once novelistic and unavoidably Internet era.
Slant Magazine
5.0
As a celebration of personal and social history, 20th Century Women takes the audience back. But it also lifts us up on a wave of openhearted emotion ..
Washington Post
5.0
Love and loss go hand in hand in 20th Century Women, a funny, emotionally piercing story about a teenager and the women who raise him.
The New York Times
3.8
But its ultimately to the same emotional ends, which is a coded way of saying that the wallop of its final minutes are, in light of a consistent emoti ..
The Film Stage
3.8
The filmmaker establishes a lovely hangout factor, at once carefully scripted and narratively spacious.
Chicago Tribune
4.4
Its a mark of Millss light touch as a writer and filmmaker that Williams gift for charming women is seen as both a happy accident and a source of gnaw ..
Boston Globe
3.5
But this heartfelt film features a great ensemble cast delivering moments both hilarious and heartbreaking with real introspection and Mills successfu ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
It winds up being a good stylistic decision.This is a nice movie filled with music, wonderment, and damaged relationships.
Uproxx
5.0
Sex, some, though more awkwardness and regrets than action.Not much in the way of drugs; just some beer, oh, and lots of cigarettes; it has several po ..
Flickfilosopher
3.0
Too often, one yearns for the simple organising principles of three act structure and boring linear storytelling.
The Irish Times
4.0
The movie doesnt, either, but it makes the journey toward seeking them poignant and rewarding.
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
The sheer likability of these lived in characters is a powerful magnet, thanks to insightful writing and a note perfect ensemble anchored by a never b ..
Hollywood Reporter
4.5
In a scene early on in 20th Century Women, Dorothea (Annette Bening) helps her son construct a birthday cake in the kitchen, plugging candles into a m ..
The Atlantic
4.5
Like how Idiocracy has become a documentary, or the fact that Starship Troopers is a dead on 9/11 Iraq War parable that came out in 1997.
Pajiba
4.4
While maybe not as instantaneously magnificent as that Oscar winning drama proved to be, that does not make this follow up any less wonderful.I loved ..
Movie Freak
3.5
It celebrates Southern California at the end of the 1970s when the 1980s were about to come along and take the fun out of everything.
Detroit News
3.5
The best thing about the movie is Benings performance as Dorothea Fields, whos portrayed as a very particular kind of contradictory free spirit.Divorc ..
Variety
5.0
Empathetic and self searching..a highly witty, deeply humane look at people who may be too conscious for their own good, people who think and feel too ..
Groucho Reviews
4.5
As such, its a deeply personal work with an almost European flavor, most notable for its anchoring performance by Annette Bening.
Cnn
4.5
This warm, funny, inquisitive and poignant 20th Century Women serves up so many sumptuous slices at once, you may as well call it a complete cake.
Herald Sun
4.0
This voiceover tactic could seem twee, but its handled just lightly enough to be mostly humorous, and it manages to crack some of the conventional way ..
Vox
4.0
Is fascinating too to present a coming of age tale told through the prism of the mother, a unique perspective seldom seen in cinema as more often than ..
Hey U Guys
3.8
The title refers to women in the plural but the story and Benings performance are very much the singular focus.
The Star
4.2
Abbie, wonderfully portrayed by Greta Gerwig, is in many ways a dose of reality for Jamie.
The Play List
5.0
William represents a failed ideology and the essential cruelty of hope.
Film Freak Central
4.0
But its Golden Globe nominated Bening whos the rock solid centre of this pics universe.
Now Toronto
3.5
This approach is entertaining enough, but gives the film a fragmented feeling.
Urban Cine File
4.5
What 20th Century Women, an exquisite mother and son story at its heart, captures most accomplishedly is something cinema rarely manages to grasp.
Film School Rejects
4.5
But if you stick with it, theres plenty of reward in this highly personal film for Mike Mills.
Film Ink
5.0
Mills manages to combine the naturalistic performances with an atmosphere of grandeur and sublime detachment, thanks to Sean Porters artful visual sty ..
Cine Vue
3.2
These roles are reasonably detailed and finely performed but cant overcome Mills anecdotal rhythms.Dialogue this sharp deserves a clearer target to hi ..
Tamp A Bay
5.0
Despite being set in the late 1970s, 20th Century Women feels like the perfect movie for this moment.Writer/director Mike Mills sets one montage to Ji ..
New York Post
4.5
20th Century Women lacks a central point but between the meandering story lines of parent child relationships, missed opportunities and irreparable pa ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
4.0
This is a film with strengths and weaknesses bound up in the same straggly ball.
Lw Lies
4.0
No emotions are coerced.Everything feels genuine, artistic, pure.And the performances are fantastic.
Abc
3.8
Its great commentary is existing in the moment, which it does quite well, but you mind find yourself aching for something a little more concrete to pr ..
Red Eye Chicago
4.5
If that setup makes you worry for a moment that this is another story about women from a male perspective, youre not alone.
The Stranger
2.5
The movie is largely a series of vignettes about the five main characters.
Cleve Land
3.0
But those wanting a driving, dramatic narrative may be somewhat disappointed.
Stuff
3.0
Cant things just be pretty.Dorothea (Annette Bening), a Birkenstock wearing 50 something single mom, sighs when confronted with British post punk band ..
Ar Kansas Online
3.1
Creative flourishes come fast and furious in 20th Century Women, an ensemble drama from writer director Mike Mills (Thumbsucker).
Larsen On Film
4.5
It will possibly means more to 70s kids but by golly such a great script spoken so well by so many great actors if plastic superheroes arent your thin ..
The Sun
4.5
Its a gorgeous performance that looks like it happened spontaneously.
Wsj
4.2
As such, their fates which are revealed in the films many voiceovers arent all happy, but some are; enough to bring you to tears.And the reason youre ..
Patriot Ledger
4.4
1 of 2 View Caption This image released by A24 shows Annette Bening and Billy Crudup in a scene from 20th Century Women.
Sltrib
4.8
Mills has created an incredible, heart warming drama. I could listen to these characters talk and watch them interact for hours.
The Film Pie
3.8
It is a master class in nuanced acting, and it is deserving of an Academy Award.
Chicago Sun Times
2.9
It adds some welcome dark elements to the narrative, but it also feels creepy and poorly resolved by the end.
Nyc Movie Guru
4.0
Just as you never sense Mills aiming for laughs (which makes the movie funnier) you never feel that hes hammering down a point.They happen when you le ..
Punch Drunk Critics
3.5
1 of 2 2 of 2 Starring Annette Bening.Rated 14A Its never too soon, or too late, to look back at your own history.
Straight
2.0
It stands bravely alongside Gus Van Sants Drugstore Cowboy as one of the few American films that dares to ask what it is that drives society in the di ..
Sandiego Reader
4.5
What were left with is a poignant, often hilarious tapestry of family and femininity and masculinity and mortality anchored by two of the most underva ..
Cinemix Tape
3.0
Theres something to 20th Century Women, something real, but a lack of follow through keeps it from ever being anything more than potential.
ComingSoon
4.5
Millss direction was pushing toward a distinctive and inventive style a combination of found footage montage and poetic voiceover but its perspective ..
The Ringer
4.0
Its coda nicks the finale of Six Feet Under, but honest to god it might do it better.
Metro New York
4.5
Just as Bening was worthy of a nomination, Gerwig also delivers a strong performance in a supporting role.
Solzy At The Movies
5.0
Every character is fully formed and every performance is a gem; each actor has a scene or a line or a gesture that tells us everything about these peo ..
Flavor Wire
4.4
The film deserves every bit of emotion it wrenches from your soul.
Awards Circuit
4.0
The film never feels overstuffed or hermetic, though; instead it possesses a loose, freewheeling vibe that allows us to spend ample time in the compan ..
The Skinny
4.0
Both films walk the fine line between drama and comedy that appears to be difficult for most, moving without being sappy, funny without being corny.
Under The Radar Mag
2.0
Instead, it accomplishes all its compositional and structural screw ups by itself.
Or Lando Weekly
4.0
Surprisingly, his script is often chuckle out loud funny about all this as well.
reason
3.0
In fact, it is a very inconsistent movie: its bad moments are toxic garbage, but it has some very lovely moments too, and Im fairly confident that the ..
Alternate Ending
4.5
This is a story about women.Jamies divorced mother Dorothea Annette Bening, in one of the best screen performances of 2016 is a resolutely old fashion ..
East Bay Express
4.5
Far from idealizing the past, he brings it to life with all its hope and dread and offers a bracing reminder that we arent the first to face a terrify ..
Seven Day Svt
3.0
I just wish the audience would have gotten a varying perspective across racial boundaries.
Black Girl Nerds
4.0
Of course, theres another factor at play here: when you want to make a film about remarkable women, you need a remarkable cast.
Concrete Play Ground
4.0
Its also a poignant character study that draws first rate performances from its cast.
Bfi
4.4
How do you be a good man is a query made by every generation, and one the previous cohort always seems to have a better handle on than your own.Is it ..
National Post
3.5
The accusation of torture porn may well be levelled at Hounds of Love, despite the general discretion with which Young suggests the horrors that poor ..
The Australian
4.0
Its warm, wonderfully written, frequently very funny and, most crucially, genuine.
Sky
5.0
After the welcome end of the Obama era, Hollywood is left confused.
National Review
5.0
Im not surprised.The movie gives us room to experience emotion unmediated.
New States Man
4.0
Dorothea may be eccentric, but shes never reduced to the cutesiness often seen in pop culture moms. Benings work is just too prickly and warm and real ..
Winnipeg Free Press
3.0
It is one of her finest performances and one I sincerely hope the Academy recognizes this year.
Media Mikes
3.5
When he visited Toronto to talk about his movie, Rules Dont Apply, Warren Beatty advised everyone to see his wife, Annette Bening, in the film 20th Ce ..
Toronto Sun
4.4
Bening gives one of the best performances in a career of great performances as a mother trying to raise a feminist son and realizing her own limitatio ..
Columbus Alive
3.5
The result is a cross between I Remember Mama and what might be called A Portrait of the Artist as an Adolescent.
Sf Weekly
4.4
The movie doesnt have a plot, and it doesnt really need one. The stars, all superb, say all that needs to be said in their characters quiet yearning a ..
Am Ny
1.5
The result is a film that alternates between universality and navel gazing, with the latter turned irritating and the former too superficial
Washington City Paper
4.0
Its still a provocative film with a mix of passion and mythic tropes, and it has a brutal edge.
Stream On Demand At Home
4.0
Personal history is an enchanting muse, particularly in the hands of a skilled and thoughtful filmmaker whose story is worth sharing.
Toledo Blade
5.0
Youll have quite the wait for the next one to come along.Bring sandwiches.
Spectator
4.4
Gerwig, however, is the standout in a film full of tremendous performers.
Cambridge Day
3.5
Yet this film is truly an ensemble piece.Gerwig has always been something of an indie icon but here she moves into the new and fascinating territory o ..
Honey Cutts Hollywood
4.0
(Ive heard that said about them, but my finches have always been more pragmaticthey muddle through tragedy, just like the rest of us.).Mostly the film ..
Metro Active
4.0
Often warm and funny, this isnt a rosy hued view of those long ago days, as demonstrated by this often quoted line from Annette Benings Dorothea (Mill ..
Adelaide Review
4.0
Womens peculiar filmic style successfully combines naturalism and audio visual poetry.
Impulse Gamer
3.5
The scene has a frankness that is welcome and rare in American cinema.
Willamette Week
4.2
It might just be her single greatest performance in a career full of grand ones.
The Film Experience
2.0
20th Century Women doesnt entertain, not as a moment in time or as a study in 20th century womens characters.
Kdhx
3.5
The most widespread criticism of this film is that it lacks a plot.
The Week
3.0
Each character is facing something of a life crisis, and all are given plenty of screen time to unpack their emotional suitcases.
Aarp
4.4
Its as if she wraps the movie in her comforting murmur, keeping it close; when its over, you realize youll miss her.
Seattle Times
3.8
This is a movie way too smart for that.20th Century Women isnt overtly that funny, but its nicely witty and droll enough to bring forth happy laughs a ..
Buffalo News
4.0
Its a warm, wise and funny movie that is heartwarming without being sappy.
Pgh City Paper
3.5
The other actors all do good work but their characters seem more like an authors construct than real people.
Leonard Mal
4.0
Dorotheas one overriding concern is: Will Jamie come out the other end of coming of age a good man
Daily News
2.5
The soundtrack is a mix of hip songs from the era and New Age soup.
Seattle Weekly
4.5
Do you need a man to raise a man.Thats the question posed early on in 20th Century Women, a film that follows a single mother, Dorothea (played in a s ..
Vogue
3.8
And at the end, it is Jamie who brings us to the finish line, providing a loving testament to the marvelous women who defined his life and a generatio ..
City Beat
3.0
In an instance like this, sometimes all you need is a fantastic cast and a script that at least gets it mostly right to provide a decent entertainment ..
The Blus Pot
5.0
But clearly there is still progress to be made before we truly reflect the realities of what women experience.
Bust
4.0
How many women does it take to screw in a fifteen year old boys metaphorical lightbulb.(This is not a dirty joke.
Student Edge
4.4
Movie trailer: 20th Century Women 20th Century Women, starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup, is a co ..
Fres Nobee
4.0
By Jay Stone Wondering if youre happy is a great shortcut to being depressed, says Dorothea (Annette Bening), the wise wreck of a single mother whos t ..
Ex Press
4.5
There is not a single misstep in this poignant, true, and ingenious character drama, an extraordinary film that is one of 2016s best.
All Movie
5.0
But where Crowes film delivered a portrait of an era, Mills doesnt seem able to get an overview away from his own perspective of the time.
Daily Public
4.0
It is the performances, though, that ultimately ground the film, particularly that by Beninga marvelous piece of work that deserves all the awards buz ..
Bk Mag
4.0
That seems like formula for a twee coming of age story, but as in Beginners, Mills sidesteps those expectations to deliver something far more searchin ..
Mubi
4.0
Annette Bening was straight up robbed of an Oscar nod. This is a delight from start to finish, thanks to a warm hearted script and terrific performanc ..
I News
4.3
The other day, my husband and I took a roadtrip up the coast for a tapas lunch and drinks at an oceanfront hotel.Carly Simons 1972 classic Youre So Va ..
Womens Voices For Change
3.8
With its more ambitious, multi layered storyline, Women doesnt quite have the same resonance.
Good Times
4.4
The performances are all excellent and preciseZumann is a real find as the sensitive boybut its Annette Benings show.
Baltimore Magazine
5.0
The actress is like a fine wine just keeps getting better and better with age.
Franks Reel Reviews
4.5
We, like the characters, are never going to get this time again and so instead of attempting to look beyond the film, youll find yourself being in thi ..
Graffiti With Punctuation
3.5
Its generosity, rambling and an extremely moving epilogue mark this films appreciation for the people who dont stay in your life for very long, but ma ..
Spliced Personality
5.0
A man who admitted hacking into the accounts of actress Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities is asking a federal judge for leniency.
Arca Max
3.5
Bening is superb as Dorothea, a role that gives her a welcome chance to shine.
Perth Now
4.4
Though there isnt much of a message to glean from this inappropriately titled homage to the dawn of female empowerment, one can easily appreciate its ..
Starmands Sarasotanews
4.0
Way too many films out there are heavy on plot and exposition, light on atmosphere and character development.
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