C’mon C’mon

It’s a wispy yet insightful and emotionally satisfying film…

No Joker in sight as the stellar and always surprising Joaquin Phoenix shows his tender side in this bracing, bittersweet family dramedy from Mike...

It’s a cliche of a tale… but Mills sells it, largely thanks to Phoenix’s expertly calibrated performance as a capable, though...

A sincere drama about relationships.

Yes, it’s a far-fetched plot only a Midnight Madness film audience could love. But that’s who writer/director Julia Ducournau is c...

Will you be moved by the film’s central, flowering relationship, which opens up roughly the way you think it will? Well, I was.

If the movie can feel just a little curated, what it tells us is worth hearing anyway. Generationally, to listen and learn should always be&nb...

Heartfelt and wise…

Perfectly captures the constant feelings of terror, inadequacy, panic, exhaustion, and the tsunami of love and gratitude and hope and hilarity of c...

Quietly, shamblingly human after the spectacular derangement of Joker, [Phoenix] plays Johnny with an inconsistent complicated history of care and...

Phoenix gives a warm, subtle performance as a journalist getting to know his oddball nephew.

One of the most deeply reflective American filmmakers working today, Mills is a storyteller with a baring, raw sense of honesty, unafraid of a...

A tremendous showing from Joaquin Phoenix, operating at a register he’s rarely found before. It’s a career best for him – lov...

Whatever rough edges have been sanded off the real Richard Williams in this telling, it’s still a hell of a story.

Unguarded and achingly truthful.

C’mon C’mon doesn’t really go anywhere in particular. It’s a meandering experience, but purposefully so. And it&rsquo...

[Phoenix] makes the entire endeavour worthwhile, but substitute any other performer in the role, and the film would crumble completely.

If a carefully plotted, meticulously polished drama is what you’re after, you’ll want to pass on C’mon C’mon. If you&r...

Some of C’mon C’mon’s gestures – which position people of colour as props in a white family drama – can get icky.

"C’mon C’mon" doesn’t need to make a lot of noise to be heard. Sometimes, there’s more value in listening.

The narrative tension might be fairly described as minimal. But in focusing on protagonists who aren’t epically messed up or dysfunctional, i...

A small, soft-spoken yet casually profound family drama…

"C’mon C’mon" feels real.

C’mon C’mon is a great big bear hug wrapped in celluloid.

Mills' core insight remains the same in every film: We’re all screwed up to some degree, all constantly improvising, all doing the best we ca...

It’s an impressively contrived film, almost a machine for winning awards, a monochrome reverie of midlife yearning.

C’mon C’mon is an intricate, moving drama constantly thrown off balance by this Tasmanian Devil of a child, an unpredictable force...

This is a movie about listening – really listening – to what other people have to say.

This is the rare film whose crux lies in the idea of children being taken seriously about their feelings, hopes, concerns.

Bittersweet, gently profound collisions of art and life.

C’mon C’mon is awash with regret-over badly tended sibling relationships, undealt-with mommy issues, but also the satisfaction of every...

This falls into the time-honoured tradition of movies about closed-off guys learning to feel from the innocents left in their charge, but Mills ski...

What we have here is basically a 2020s riff on 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' the modern man, unexpectedly pressed into child-rearing, and finding somet...

"C’mon C’mon" is a tender and turbulent melodrama that amplifies its power with a documentary current.

It’s as easy to forgive the sleepy and self-effacing "C’mon C’mon" for its missteps as it is to forgive the film’s cha...

Phoenix, Hoffman and Norman, especially, amuse and move with their relatable performances in Mills' sweet drama. It’s nicely visualised but c...

It’s a heartfelt film that has some terrific stuff in it.

For all its indulgent introspection, Mills' latest remains miraculously unpunchable.

In this compelling, well-acted but conventionally told biopic about the unconventional dad of tennis icons Serena and Venus Williams, actor Will Sm...

Great child performances only happen when the child and director are both excellent and, however he did it, Mills managed to capture one beautiful...

Mills is one of the few filmmakers you could trust with a story like this; he never lets the proceedings veer into sentimentality.

A film, heartfelt yet deeply considered, that in almost every scene is trying to make sense of that happy, sad, full, empty and always shifting lif...