His & Hers Reviews
Empire Magazine
Wardop's approach limits the value of the piece to fond reflections on menfolk when there might have been a more interesting film in quizzing them about their own stories.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Guardian [UK]
Sparky and cheerful if condescending and weirdly infantilising.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Little White Lies
No great surprises in the early segments, but the intensity grows as the shadows of age and illness fall. Even the blokes will be sniffling into their popcorn.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
Wardrop's charming but bland doc opens with the proverb: "A man loves his girlfriend the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
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| Original Score: 3/5
Eye for Film
while men may be the film's exclusive verbal theme, women remain its only visual subject, and it is only in the very final shot that we catch our first, brief glimpse of a man, as intrusive - and inevitable - as death itself.
EricDSnider.com
I should caution you that if you watch this movie, you will be struck with an overwhelming desire to go hug your wife, sister, girlfriend, mother, or daughter, whichever beloved female is closest and will tolerate being hugged by you.
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| Original Score: B+
Top CriticYou would need to be made of stone not to be charmed by the wit and warmth of these women.
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| Original Score: 3/5
It's around the birthing years that Wardrop's extremely selective homemaker's oral history-crafted to soothe with its placid framing and cheery, meditative tone-begins to close around you like doily-papered walls.
Flick Filosopher
[K]eeps things deceptively simple, just letting the women talk without introduction or context, and yet creating, in the process, a portrait of an archetypal life of the modern woman...
Guardian [UK]
It's more of an elegant cinematic tone poem than a documentary, and it's both affecting and limited.
