C’mon C’mon

Unguarded and achingly truthful.

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

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

«C’mon C’mon» feels real.

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...

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

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

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

A sincere drama about relationships.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Картина строится на неторопливых и вдумчивых диалогах — брата и сестры, дяди и племянника, взрослых и детей. И в этом плавном повест...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Heartfelt and wise…

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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