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

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

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

| Dec 5, 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

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

| Nov 22, 2024

Ms. McKenzie is terrific and carries much of the film, and director Taylor seizes every opportunity to adorn it with period flavor.

| Nov 22, 2024

Ben Taylor, keeps the momentum up despite his weakness for marking the passage of time with eyebrow-raising needle drops.

| Nov 21, 2024

... A gulf can open up between the film’s cosy vibe and the characters’ radical ambition. But the small scale makes sense too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2024

Neither the deficiencies of Thorne’s script nor the made-for-온라인카지노추천 feeling of Taylor’s direction ever fully obscure the enduringly relevant principle they exist to serve.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 21, 2024

Joy is not all joy. There is frustration and loss and tears along the way, but it is a triumphant film about the way humans can make the world better and how a baby’s cry can be a priceless gift.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 21, 2024

It’s pleasant to a fault, aiming to ensure that the painful elements of history, science, sexism, closed-mindedness and motherhood go down easy, diluting potentially profound truths in the pursuit of being closer to crowd-pleasing.

| Nov 20, 2024

It was a medical breakthrough whose decades-long gestation involved dogged but underfunded research, media rancour and personal strain. The resulting drama is watchable, if a little functional, sometimes feeling like an adapted stage play.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2024

Joy decides to settle for such middle-of-the-road filmmaking. Much of it is as unsubtle as a kick to the head with audience-friendly needle drops at every opportunity and story beats you can set your watch to.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2024

Joy adopts the most basic possible template for its fluffy history lesson, but still has an impressive habit of joining all the wrong dots.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2024

It’s not a flashy movie, and the vintage aesthetic sometimes feels unnecessarily dour, but it makes for good storytelling that embraces both our past and present concerns at once.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2024

The picture’s main asset is Nighy, who is terrific as the curmudgeonly surgeon who conceals the kindest of hearts under his sandpaper line readings and thunderous scowl.

| Oct 18, 2024

Suffice to say that McKenzie does Purdy proud, while Norton is generous enough to balance history by ceding the floor to his leading lady. As for Nighy, he damn near steals the entire film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2024

The painfully literal screenplay from Jack Thorne (The Aeronauts) effectively spans ten years of Nighy and co staring into microscopes and saying, “Nope, not ready yet.”

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2024

Joy may not represent the height of sophisticated storytelling, but it has the advantage of an interesting story rescued from historical obscurity.

| Oct 18, 2024