It’s a more subdued work than most biopics, but it’s one that has plenty on its plate for the right audience member.

| Jul 14, 2024

The basic problem with the film is that it’s so clearly an adapted stage play. Wastes both Spall and Redgrave’s talents.

| Sep 17, 2023

The issue with Mrs Lowry & Son, directed by Adrian Noble from a screenplay by Martyn Hesford, is that it spends way too much time with Elizabeth.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 18, 2022

Simple but savory reflections on art. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2021

Much of the movie plays out in the mother's bedchamber, a metaphor for the stultifying emotional confines of an existence relieved intermittently by the pleasure of making art.

| Jun 17, 2020

A fascinating if sometimes repetitive account of an emotionally abusive relationship between mother and son. The outdoor scenes that reference Lowry's paintings lighten the claustrophobia.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2020

Martyn Hesford adapts his play for the screen with this very stagey and often uneasy two-hander, notable for fine work from Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Spall...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2019

Timothy Spall's performance is a sterling study of understatement and pent-up frustration opposite a bed-bound Venessa Redgrave, who plays his domineering, ego-crushing horror of a mother.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2019

...has a small canvas (sorry), and it suffers from a certain determined ordinariness, but it is affecting in other ways.

| Original Score: 16/20 | Nov 27, 2019

On the screen, Mrs Lowry and Son, much like one of Lowry's own paintings, is a wee gem on a small canvas, full of loving details within its apparently simple and unadorned style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2019

Both actors give this bed-bound script their all and their jousting is enjoyable if you like other people's pain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2019

An essay on family, and life, by two of the greatest living actors.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 11, 2019

Vanessa Redgrave and Timothy Spall give a master class in acting. The whole movie is a character study but what a study it is in the hands of these terrific thespians.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 9, 2019

Biopic about artist's relationship with his bullying mother.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2019

If often sad and unsettling, the film is also livelier and less oppressive than it may sound thanks to the fine writing, deft direction by Adrian Noble, and the superb, if painful interplay between Redgrave and Spall.

| Nov 1, 2019

A one-note and strangely listless work that brings together two of the most immensely talented actors working today.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 1, 2019

Mrs Lowry & Son ... is stuck in the mire of the worst aspects of their relationship and the monotonous narrative.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 1, 2019

Both Spall and Redgrave feel stifled and stiff-jointed, hemmed in by a thin, shallow-focus script that betrays its origins as a radio play all too easily.

| Oct 31, 2019

Mrs. Lowry And Son is by turns hilarious, brutal and tender, and like the best drama, it will leave you wondering what's going on behind the closed doors of all the other houses in Pendlebury and further afield.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 31, 2019

Mrs. Lowry and Son has an appealing old-school charm and two performances that make it worth seeing.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 28, 2019