Critic Reviews

• Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

  Elvira, Sol, and Jimena -- named for women in the life of El Cid -- are so spoiled and blind to their mother's happiness that they're often thoroughly unpleasant.

• , San Francisco Chronicle

  A sometimes cloying mix of screwball comedy and drama.

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  Less side-splitting than a sad reminder of the past.

• Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

  Offers some pleasures along the way, including an engaging performance by Leonor Watling.

• Susan Walker, Toronto Star

  Despite the promise of its title, this is a movie that skirts the issues of gay relationships at every turn.

• Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

  My Mother Likes Women wants keenly to be hip and modern, but really it's just an old-fashioned drawing-room comedy.

• Rob Thomas, Capital Times (Madison, WI)

  It's a warm, sunny film that should remind viewers favorably of an early Aldomovar film, in which strong, beautiful, but slightly nutty women carry the day.

• Jon Popick, Planet Sick-Boy

  Sounds like a bad Almodóvarian television sitcom pilot.

• S. James Wegg, JWR

  ... it's nice to know that Hollywood endings aren't entirely in the straight domain.

• Peter Canavese, Groucho Reviews

  A graceless film about hateful people...apart from some Prague scenery in the last act, My Mother Likes Women is thoroughly ugly.

• Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International

  Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman's film does provide a measure of pleasure and a delicious premise that, wittier and less shrill, could be a terrific, timely and original remake for American audiences.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  An aggressively silly take on subject matter that deserves more thought, but the performers -- virtually all of whom are women -- have so much energy and conviction you almost don't notice.

• Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

  Sardà never makes a believable lesbian.

• Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly

  It's little more than an amusing sitcom.

• Boyd van Hoeij, european-films.net

  This is a Spanish treat! Not really about lesbianism, but rather a broad comedy about a neurotic twenty-something trying to make sense of it all.

• , E! Online

  Likeable, not loveable.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  ...it's hard not to root for all these characters to get what they want.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  Like a fourth-generation duplicate of an original--curiously pale and tired although straining for vivacity and color.

• Shlomo Schwartzberg, Boxoffice Magazine

  Skirts predictability and political correctness in equal measure, adding up to an entertaining night at the movies.

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