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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. Jul 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. Jul 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. Jul 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. Jul 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. Jul 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. Jul 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
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. Jul 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. Aug 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. Jul 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
Parenthood gets a lot of emotional mileage out of kiddie antics, but Howard has, thankfully, given us a little more. Jul 31, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Parenthood gets a lot of emotional mileage out of kiddie antics, but Howard has, thankfully, given us a little more.
Gary Thompson
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 | Full Review…
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.
Candice Russell
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. Jul 31, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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.
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