In taking a pro-life position, some might assume that it is “anti-pro-choice” by default, but that is not the case. The subject of abortion is never brought up which, in the eyes of some, discounts and ignores the practice altogether.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2023

Here we are in a world of, with, about, and for women. Without a doubt, most of them will enjoy the emotional heft that Mother and Child bestows. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2022

Mother and Child remains as an emotionally satisfying experience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 15, 2022

But the film's flaws can't dim its many virtues: Mother and Child has a depth and heart you don't often find at the local multiplex.

| Jan 22, 2020

Hackneyed and telegraphed, just about elevated to passable by three strong lead performances and notable support by Cherry Jones.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2018

There are powerful moments and the cast is note-perfect.

| Nov 17, 2018

While Garcia's principal preoccupation is with the fallout from adoption, it's the secondary storylines about women in the work place, and the stresses of marriage and pregnancy that are the film's strengths.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2018

Never lives up to the performances and the first half, particularly, is conducted so methodically it all feels rather sedated and even dreary.

| Aug 31, 2018

Think of Mother and Child as the flip side to the flippant Juno: This timely and at times gut-wrenching movie focuses on three women affected by adoption.

| Aug 6, 2018

Mother and Child isn't a hard-hitting drama, but rather a precious, soulful look at family, love, and loss.

| Original Score: A | Sep 8, 2017

In the wrong hands, this film could have been grating melodrama. Under Garcia's watchful eye, this is an ode to mothers and children who are lost but not forgotten.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 8, 2016

For the first time in a very long while, Bening disappears into a character and turns in a performance that isn't about her shamelessly playing to the rafters to grab after Oscar.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 8, 2012

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Bening and Watts are good enough to see it through, and it's good to see Jackson actually play his age for once.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2012

It's a highly contrived affair with a barely concealed, deeply conservative Catholic agenda, and it has the ring of a cracked bell calling the righteous to prayer.

| Jan 7, 2012

Mother and Child reminds us how important the notion of lineage - of finding a discernible path through life that doesn't just begin and end with ourselves - is to our personal identity, and the decisions we make in life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 7, 2012

Annette Bening gives one of her most enigmatic and painfully frank performances yet that cuts direct to the core.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2012

Bening, consistently one of the best US screen actresses, is really the main reason to keep you watching.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2012

Thankfully, the cast raise it above Hallmark standard, especially Jackson with a performance that proves he doesn't have to bring down great vengeance or furious anger to grab your attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2012

There are tears aplenty before the three plot strands are brought - rather too neatly - together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2012