Amanda may explore loss with sensitivity and grace, but only after it's shielded its eyes from the rest of the world.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2020

Multrier has an incredibly expressive face, able to telegraph a grieving child's mixed emotions, spanning anger, pain, petulance, incredulity and ruddy-cheeked joy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2020

The risk is mawkishness, but the film sidesteps it with a close-up study of loss and new connection.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2019

It tells a familiar story furrowed by quiet emotional conviction, much of it in Lacoste's unhurried, unaffected turn.

| Feb 28, 2019

Hers's stamp as a contemplative miniaturist with an eye for the inner life is unmistakeably on display in this involving, typically graceful piece.

| Aug 31, 2018

A low-key family drama with a shattering tragedy at its heart, Amanda is a quietly moving celebration of human resilience from French writer-director Mikhael Hers.

| Aug 31, 2018

[A] good-natured and well-intentioned film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2018