What disappoints me about this film is the potential that is within it. Somewhere here is a good film, and there are some great ideas.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 1, 2024

Ma Belle, My Beauty avoids any heavy-handed statements about gender, sex or relationships, preferring instead to just observe its characters and let viewers draw their own conclusions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2022

There is an authenticity to the emotions on display throughout the feature that is not always found in the genre and there is both a clear inspiration and craft to nearly every piece of the film.

| Feb 22, 2022

Ma Belle, My Beauty may show an unconventional relationship in a different light, but it never really goes much deeper beneath the surface.

| Sep 13, 2021

Ma Belle, My Beauty doesn't give easy answers on monogamy or polyamory, but viewers will be taken on an engaging and sometimes uneven ride where love partners have to decide if they're going to be truthful about their boundaries and desires.

| Sep 10, 2021

Despite its lack of confrontation, the film keeps the viewer engaged with lush settings, a wonderful score, and first-rate performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2021

What rises to the top in a film like this is the writing, and for director Marion Hill her approach to these characters is not tiptoeing or cloying, but authentic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 2, 2021

I can't say it did much for me. Still, the vicarious pleasures it offers are the kind you can hardly begrudge anyone else enjoying...

| Aug 30, 2021

An insight into the physical and chemical connections, and the messy emotions that get in the way. The acting is pitch perfect, and Johnson's singing voice is heaven on earth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2021

The unique dynamics of polyamorous relationships form an intriguing backdrop for this romantic melodrama, which is able to sidestep love-triangle formula yet struggles to generate sufficient emotional depth.

| Aug 27, 2021

Ma Belle, My Beauty takes the tired love triangle trope and obliterates it, creating something new.

| Aug 27, 2021

Always delightfully adult, this offering, however, doesn't deal with labels. No one seems to really care about the gender of the soul you are shacking up with or their ethnicity or their knowledge of wine. Well, the latter might not be true.

| Aug 26, 2021

It's all very amiable, casual and lovely to behold, but needs a little more friction to spice things up.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2021

Viewers may wish there were more to it, but what's there is teasingly intriguing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2021

Ma Belle, My Beauty feels uninterested in its characters' motivations and their main source of conflict-how to manuever the complicated cogs of the polyamorous machine...

| Aug 24, 2021

[An] intoxicating romantic drama...Hill's film may not be deep, but it provides some keen insights about relationships. And it sure is gorgeous.

| Aug 24, 2021

Ma Belle, My Beauty excels in its visual storytelling, which is paired beautifully with a lively acoustic score and talented actors.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2021

Anchored by four very good performances, Ma Belle, My Beauty unfortunately suffers from inertia and a lack of conflict.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 20, 2021

May the language of love always call to us with such an alluring siren song.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2021

As the landscape and people of this region stimulated the master of Fauvism [Matisse], so do these elements play a central role in Hill's film.

| Jun 21, 2021