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Bolstered by a delightful cast, Parenthood is a funny and thoughtfully crafted look at the best and worst moments of family life that resonates broadly.
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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. July 31, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
Desmond Ryan
This movie has its share of laughs, but it's also Ron Howard's most personal film, and clearly his most ambitious. July 31, 2013 | Full Review…
This movie has its share of laughs, but it's also Ron Howard's most personal film, and clearly his most ambitious.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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. July 31, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
Gene Siskel
The remaining cast, young, old and in-between, is lovely. July 31, 2013 | Full Review…
The remaining cast, young, old and in-between, is lovely.
Sheila Benson
With Parenthood, Howard as a director has discovered weight, but not gravity. For all of its admirable seriousness, the film finally floats away. July 31, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
With Parenthood, Howard as a director has discovered weight, but not gravity. For all of its admirable seriousness, the film finally floats away.
Dave Kehr
There's not a scene in Parenthood that isn't involving: The actors keep reaching into themselves and coming up with gold. July 31, 2013 | Full Review…
There's not a scene in Parenthood that isn't involving: The actors keep reaching into themselves and coming up with gold.
Jay Boyar
Plenty of realistic drama makes its way into the slightly exaggerated scenarios. September 6, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Plenty of realistic drama makes its way into the slightly exaggerated scenarios.
Mike Massie
...an engaging and often engrossing picture that benefits substantially from the efforts of a uniformly superb cast... June 26, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
...an engaging and often engrossing picture that benefits substantially from the efforts of a uniformly superb cast...
David Nusair
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. September 7, 2019 | Full Review…
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.
Kathi Maio
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. July 1, 2017 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
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.
Dennis Schwartz
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. August 13, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Dennis King
Ambitiously probing every anxiety-ridden corner of the suburban mum-and-dad experience, some of its interconnecting story strands work better than others. July 31, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Ambitiously probing every anxiety-ridden corner of the suburban mum-and-dad experience, some of its interconnecting story strands work better than others.
Paul M. Bradshaw
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