It is a challenge to combine blistering scenes between hostile exes and thoughtful explorations of medical ethics, but writer/director/star Julie Delpy brings it all together.

| Nov 9, 2021

Delpy is casually mesmerizing and naked with her feelings in a way that only a handful of actresses could ever achieve...

| Nov 9, 2021

Regardless of whether audiences agree with Isabelle's decisions, they will likely empathize with this portrait of a mother in despair.

| Nov 9, 2021

Always at the heart of My Zoe's heartbreaking angst and that surprising genre shift is the ever powerful love of the mother - brought to life with sensitivity and subtlety by Delpy - for her daughter.

| Nov 9, 2021

Julie Delpy's sci-fi take on grief is a heartbreaking and profoundly humanist examination of where the future may take us when it comes to coping - or not - with the loss of our loved ones.

| Nov 9, 2021

My Zoe is anchored in emotional realism, so we follow her as she tumbles headlong into a moral and ethical morass with the fearlessness and commitment only a mother can muster.

| Nov 9, 2021

Ultimately this is Delpy's movie - both as a writer/director and as an actress - and, all plot twists aside, it's about the life-changing nature of motherhood.

| Nov 9, 2021

Ma Zoe is what is usually branded as a "small" film. Small ough it is about the HUGE issue of life itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2021

There's enough potential reality amongst the fiction, and believability amidst the occasionally overwrought drama, to draw you in and keep you riveted and invested in the ultimate outcome.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2021

My Zoe is a strange, moving picture about how we process grief - or, in some cases, fail to - but it's also a powerful and complex exploration of scientific, emotional, and familial ethics.

| Aug 11, 2021

A bold drama about maternal loss, authentic and intimate, that dares a futuristic twist

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2021

Delpy directs herself to a fantastic performance, and pairs her efforts with a poised and empathetic perspective throughout.

| Jul 9, 2021

The hostility between Isabelle and Richard has to be contained in these challenging circumstances, which only adds to the stress and unhappiness. Delpy handles these scenes with a delicate skill...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2021

There are horror films and then there are films that dramatise fears too close to home. Julie Delpy's My Zoe falls into the second category.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 16, 2021

This deeply sad film really got its claws into me. Delpy's monastic constraint renders the sensational subject matter devoid of sensationalism; everything is austere, calm, precise ... I was entranced by the film's somber mood and its audacious honesty.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 15, 2021

Undercooked despite its bevy of interesting ideas.

| May 26, 2021

Due to Delpy's sincerity behind the camera and the keen ability to write with the future already in hand, you feel everything the characters do, as if you are living in their shoes.

| Original Score: B | Mar 31, 2021

Bold, intriguing but not entirely successful

| Original Score: B- | Mar 17, 2021

While the conversations regarding radical medical procedures may be out of her depth, [Delpy] treads with curiosity and sensitivity, peering through the eyes of death with the heart of a mother doing everything she can to save her daughter.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 17, 2021

Julie Delpy's intriguing My Zoe is an intimate and ambitious take on motherhood that mixes heart wrenching divorce drama, science fiction and thorny moral questions regarding reproduction.

| Mar 5, 2021