The film is sadly never as good as its beginning, poking at too many different aspects of trauma without ever fully engaging with them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

It can be a hard one to watch but, to put it simply, Kirby is magnetic. You just can’t take your eyes off her.

| Apr 23, 2024

It feels like a masterclass performance.

| Aug 22, 2023

“Pieces of a Woman” doesn’t forsake memory, but questions its proper place in the lives of the second generation.

| Jul 26, 2023

Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf deliver their career-best performances, handling extensive monologues effortlessly, but it’s the former who leaves me mind-blowed at her emotional range, which induced tears in my eyes even before the title card appeared.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

Vanessa Kirby delivers a raw, tender portrayal... Completely numbed by her grief and pain, it is a very internal, unshowy performance for the most part but nonetheless affecting for it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

A few magical moments take us inside the mind of the protagonist. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 2, 2022

Stay for the harrowing opening scene, then turn it off, and choose to remember Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman as the greatest short in recent memory.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2022

Pieces Of A Woman, which has its roots in Mundruczó and Kata Wéber’s personal tragedy of losing a child during pregnancy (Wéber has written the screenplay), is at its core a definitive portrait of a woman afflicted with an unspeakable loss

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2022

Vanessa Kirby gives a career-defining performance, one that delicately but truthfully examines various facets of loss with an honest and clear-eyed perspective.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Vanessa Kirby gives a great performance. She is able to pick up all the pieces of this woman scattered throughout the screenplay and put them together to create quite the incredible portrait.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 13, 2022

A remarkable performance from Kirby ensures that, despite its later flaws, its story that will cling to you long after the credits roll.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2022

...loses its through line and suffers by removing the perpetually problematic uber talent that is Shia LaBeouf from it's ending.

| Original Score: 48/100 | Aug 19, 2021

Pieces of a Woman never quite recaptures the eviscerating brilliance of its opening sequence(...), but that's not to say it is without merit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2021

It's dense, uncomfortable, but it's very well done. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 17, 2021

Pieces of a Woman offers the sort of emotional rollercoaster ride that will leave viewers as distraught as its characters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2021

For me, the highlight of this overbearing mess was an awkward scene in which LaBeouf and Safdie had to improvise a lengthy conversation about the White Stripes.

| Apr 30, 2021

Kirby's performance consists of mood scenes and attitude posturing, since Weber's clichéd dialogue is subordinate to the director's attempt at visual realism.

| Apr 14, 2021

The screenwriter, Kata Wéber, goes on to write several startling monologues for Burstyn's supporting performance. The speeches fill out her character so she doesn't come across as simply petty.

| Apr 12, 2021

Losing a baby before or immediately after birth is a profound and deeply personal experience. It's one that screenwriter Kata Wéber and Oscar-nominee Vanessa Kirby dramatize powerfully.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 8, 2021