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Children of Invention
  • Release Date: Mar 12, 2010
Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    One way to judge a filmmaker is by the way he or she directs children. Take Tze Chun and his impressive first feature, Children of Invention.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    This is not "Death of a Salesman'' or "Save the Tiger'' (in the case of the latter, thank God). But how refreshing to see a movie about a mother's struggles that doesn't culminate in her lying on her back to make ends meet.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Lovece
    70
    Heartfelt but dramatically tepid tale.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    70
    The young director Tze Chun is not a flashy filmmaker, but he understands the vulnerability of immigrant workers in the sleazy sub-rosa economies of a floundering 21st-century America.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gary Goldstein
    70
    Chen and Chiu's genuine, rarely cloying performances along with Cheung's urgent sincerity add immeasurably to this timely film's many modest pleasures.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    70
    A modestly scaled, quietly effective independent movie about a struggling single mother and her two children.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    70
    Urgent, artful and even austerely poetic.
  8. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Kevin B. Lee
    40
    Children of Invention seems furiously scribbled in shorthand, undermining what it has to offer in contemporary resonance.
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