There's a lot harsh violence in their path towards mutual respect and love, though it somehow lands on an incredibly tender note.

| Feb 13, 2024

If your day isn’t going well because a barista got your coffee order wrong or you waited too long in line at the grocery store, step back, take stock, and thank your maker you weren’t tested like Ms. Lewis. You’d likely fold like a deck chair.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 30, 2024

It is a life-affirming movie that feels both tragic and beautiful.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Bent over and hunched, Sally Hawkins undergoes an astonishing physical transformation to play arthritic Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis... but what's really impressive about her performance is the spark and soul she brings to the role.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2020

A beautifully crafted bio-pic of the 20th-century Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis.

| Jun 8, 2020

Maudie is a remarkable and utterly unique film that I still can't believe someone actually made, but much like Maud's paintings, someone saw a quality in her story that they recognized as worthy of attention, admiration, and beauty.

| May 11, 2020

Oscillating between moments of pain and ones of inspiring artistic expression, Maudie captures the nuance of Maud Lewis's life and her unexpected success as an artist.

| Feb 7, 2020

Hawkins and Hawke, both award-winning actors, turn in great performances, but is is Hawkins as Maude who will be hard to overlook at Oscar season this year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2019

Sally Hawkins received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for "The Shape of Water", but she was better in "Maudie".

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 11, 2019

Every now and then you come across a performance so extraordinary that it transcends its film and becomes a force of nature all its own. Sally Hawkins' towering work in Aisling Walsh's Maudie is one such performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2019

Maudie is an inspiring, heart-warming true-story film that most audiences will find hard to resist.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2019

A terrific performance from Sally Hawkins carries this biopic about an artist that has physical limitations and her unique marriage.

| Original Score: B | Mar 11, 2019

The film, if observed too closely, is not quite to scale here and slightly out of kilter there, but who cares? Art isn't science. It doesn't have answers. It doesn't have to have the answers. Not when it's beautiful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Hawke tries hard but never quite convinced me to buy him as Everett as much as Hawkins does as Maud. Still, the two leads do have a nice rapport that makes the relationship feel organic and honest.

| Original Score: B | Oct 31, 2018

Hawkins grabs and holds the scenes, not with overdramatics, but with humour and delectable gestures.

| Original Score: B | Oct 21, 2018

Maudie is a riveting and brilliantly acted insight into what is to most of us the life of a little known to us folk artist, though beloved in Canada, who against all the odds triumphed over her surroundings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2018

Who would have known that behind the gentle, smiling face and diminutive frame lay years of pain and struggle? And yet, in spite of it all, she dipped her brushes in colourful paints and gave us nostalgic visions of bright-eyed innocence.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 5, 2018

Maudie ultimately just seems like a quaint exercise, more like visiting a history museum than watching a woman who truly lived.

| Aug 27, 2018

The two lead actors, and the careful direction by Aisling Walsh are what make this film work.

| Original Score: 3.9/5 | Aug 27, 2018

An intimate portrait of a complex life, the film delivers rewards for its unusual circumstances, much like Maud Lewis herself.

| Aug 23, 2018