A value-laden true story of the world’s first in vitro fertilization baby.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2024

In the end, Joy acts as a well-worn lesson that even when women are the beating heart of the journey it still takes decades for our story to be told.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2024

The historical details lend poignancy ... Purdy died from cancer at the age of 39, in 1985. She lived long enough to see hundreds of children born around the world via IVF. But not the many millions that followed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 12, 2024

The interactions between Thomasin, Norton and Nighy prove invaluable, the three performers creating a natural, sincere rapport. Each are contrary to one another in some way or another, yet the balance they create ultimately proves complimentary.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Dec 12, 2024

... We won't spoil why this film, at times exciting, is titled Joy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 11, 2024

Made with love, even in its awkward moments, this modest account of a miraculous achievement is quietly life-affirming.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

This is a film whose tone perfectly aligns with its title.

| Dec 9, 2024

A really inspirational film celebrating science, which sadly feels controversial now.

| Dec 5, 2024

Joy breaks no boundaries as a historical drama. But as a long-overdue tribute to a woman who should be a household name, it works just fine, and is hard to dislike.

| Dec 5, 2024

By the time “Joy” is over you’ll be deeply invested in the story and its real-life characters.

| Original Score: B | Dec 3, 2024

Working off a screenplay by Jack Thorne, Taylor does the simple things effectively and builds towards a quietly powerful ­denouement.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2024

A well-intentioned drama that teeters on the edge of self-parody, Joy is a film that absolutely deserved to be made, but certainly not in this form.

| Dec 2, 2024

Joy gives McKenzie plenty of great lines, moments small and large and an engrossing character arc, but it’s her understated delivery and screen presence that keeps you invested in the story.

| Nov 30, 2024

“Joy” is a restrained but ultimately uplifting drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2024

An entangling dramatization.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 28, 2024

... shines a deserving spotlight — albeit an embellished one — on some everyday heroes with bold ideas and lab equipment, whose work remains as vital as ever.

| Nov 23, 2024

The film has an engagingly understated tone in look and performances, very stiff upper lip and carry on British.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2024

Joy, the film that tells the true story of the doctors who pioneered IVF, is a little prosaic - but the events it depicts, and its female co-lead, still feel revolutionary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2024

The film is a thorough, ambitious, and sometimes inspirational telling of a significant part of reproductive medical history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2024

A tribute to scientific innovation and compassion that, no matter its obvious manipulations, adeptly pulls at the heartstrings.

| Nov 22, 2024