20th Century Women's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
'20th Century Women' belongs to Bening, and it?s saying a lot that of all the outspoken, overbearing mothers she?s played over the years ? from the good (?The Kids Are All Right?) to the bad (?American Beauty?) to the ugly (?Running With Scissors?) ? this is the first one in which she truly seems to live and breathe as her own unbounded creation.
The Hollywood Reporter
Along with the actors, the strength of '20th Century Women' is the multigenerational sweep of its observations, particularly the pleasing balance of its empathy for the challenges of both the single parent and the adolescent offspring, uncomfortable with all the attention being focused on his emotional development.
The Washington Post
"As a celebration of personal and social history, '20th Century Women' takes the audience back. But it also lifts us up on a wave of openhearted emotion and keen intelligence. It bursts with the sad, messy, ungovernable beauty of life."
New York Times
"'20th Century Women' is a memory movie, one in which people are conjured up to bump against the larger world, exuberantly and uneasily."
Screen Crush
"It's a tender, introspective film you'll want to pull in close, hold tight, and keep with you."
Time
"Bening is terrific, getting at the way middle-aged loneliness and contentment can be so intermingled that it's almost impossible to tell which is which."
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote