This is not just a wild and crazy comedy. This is a slice of life -- contemporary Americana.

| May 9, 2023

Consistently pleasant. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 12, 2022

What better way to deal with it than through catharsis?

| Apr 14, 2021

Plenty of realistic drama makes its way into the slightly exaggerated scenarios.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 6, 2020

...an engaging and often engrossing picture that benefits substantially from the efforts of a uniformly superb cast...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 26, 2020

The glorification of fatherhood in today's films combined with the portrayal of women in the same movies as little more than breeding machines... is a treason against active motherhood and an attack on women who choose not to have children.

| Sep 7, 2019

A feel-good sitcom about three generations of middle-class California suburban dwelling parents trying to deal with their vexing children as they experience growing pains.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 1, 2017

It's hard to imagine a theme more universal and filled with human pitfalls than parenthood. And it's hard to imagine a movie treatment of that theme more humane and filled with gentle sympathy than director Ron Howard's Parenthood.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 13, 2014

Ambitiously probing every anxiety-ridden corner of the suburban mum-and-dad experience, some of its interconnecting story strands work better than others.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2013

Parenthood gets a lot of emotional mileage out of kiddie antics, but Howard has, thankfully, given us a little more.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2013

The fulcrum of the film is Martin. It's an adventurous and successful stroke of casting that takes advantage of what the audience expects from him.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2013

As Parenthood reveals within its charming, two-hour running time, the pitfalls and quandaries of child-rearing are universal -- and the joys and the heartaches remain lifelong concerns.

| Jul 31, 2013

This feel-good family ensemble piece from director Ron Howard manages to avoid being oversentimental, and the result is an affectionate, leisurely comedy about the joys (and otherwise) of bringing up children.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2013

There are good jokes and funny observations about middle-class life. The picture is too long and predictable, though.

| Jul 31, 2013

This movie has its share of laughs, but it's also Ron Howard's most personal film, and clearly his most ambitious.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2013

Here is a comedy that treats the problems and delights of real life with respect, insight, warmth and remarkably sustained wit.

| Jul 31, 2013

Parenthood easily could have focused exclusively on yuppie parents and their kids; however, the script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel is more sophisticated than that, remembering that every parent is still a child too.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

The remaining cast, young, old and in-between, is lovely.

| Jul 31, 2013

With Parenthood, Howard as a director has discovered weight, but not gravity. For all of its admirable seriousness, the film finally floats away.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 31, 2013

There's not a scene in Parenthood that isn't involving: The actors keep reaching into themselves and coming up with gold.

| Jul 31, 2013