Fresh
When 20th Century Women concerns itself with the utterly human question of personal satisfaction, it's huggable: the kind of movie you wish more directors had the courage to grab for.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out
Overview
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
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"20th Century Women" is an endless chain of anecdotes, and though many individual moments are winning, the movie as a whole is rudderless. It never achieves an emotional power surge.
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Fresh
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-better Annette Bening ...
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
The result is much more complex and exploratory than Beginners which, for all its charm, felt a little thin.
Dan Callahan, TheWrap
Fresh
Less twee and more textured than Beginners, this is the film that Mike Mills was put on this planet to make.
David Ehrlich, indieWIRE
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