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- 2021
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- A-One Films
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- 2021
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Summary Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is a kindhearted radio journalist deep into a project in which he interviews children across the U.S. about our world’s uncertain future. His sister, Viv (Gaby Hoffmann), asks him to watch her 8-year-old son, Jesse (Woody Norman), while she tends to the child’s father, who’s suffering from mental health issues. A...
Directed By: Mike Mills
Written By: Mike Mills
- 2021
- R
- A-One Films
- 1 h 49 m
- 2021
- R
- A-One Films
- 1 h 49 m
C'mon C'mon
7.2
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Summary Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is a kindhearted radio journalist deep into a project in which he interviews children across the U.S. about our world’s uncertain future. His sister, Viv (Gaby Hoffmann), asks him to watch her 8-year-old son, Jesse (Woody Norman), while she tends to the child’s father, who’s suffering from mental health issues. A...
Directed By: Mike Mills
Written By: Mike Mills
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 43 Critic Reviews
82
93% Positive
40 Reviews
40 Reviews
7% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 43 Critic Reviews
82
93% Positive
40 Reviews
40 Reviews
7% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
While it’s fully grounded as a family portrait, overlaid on it still is that type of cosmic optimism which makes Mills’s work so lovely. I’m not even sure we fully deserve it, but it would be sheer masochism to turn it down.
Going into C’mon C’mon, you may think you know exactly what it’s going to be. Coming out, you’ll probably see that you were mostly right, but that you also got a million little firefly flashes of feeling you weren’t expecting. And that right there is the Mike Mills touch.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 80 User Ratings
7.2
69% Positive
55 Ratings
55 Ratings
25% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
6% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 80 User Ratings
7.2
69% Positive
55 Ratings
55 Ratings
25% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
6% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Probably my favorite Mike Mills film. C'mon C'mon is a beautifully written drama that envelopes everything in you. Phoenix and Woody Norman are unbelievably committed in their performances, and the beautiful score and cinematography adds a wonderful layer to the entire experience. I love this movie so much!
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In amplifying the diverse voices of American children through the film’s radio vérité subplot, C’mon C’mon proves that kids have some pretty insightful advice to impart, if only we’d just listen.
Those ambivalent towards children may find the film positively tedious. Those in tune with its up-close storytelling and gentle pace may find much to enjoy.
Deeply felt sincerity of the kind that Mills offers can be a tough pill. You kind of have to be in the mood. But this isn’t a film that works despite those excesses. Instead, it makes a case for them.
C’mon C’mon doesn’t really go anywhere in particular. It’s a meandering experience, but purposefully so. And it’s the kind of film that makes you want to leave the theater and ask the big, cheesy, sincere questions of strangers, family, anyone really.
C’mon C’mon is a nice movie about characters who are so nice that I almost feel bad for not being nicely disposed toward them or this movie, even with Joaquin Phoenix as the guy and Gaby Hoffmann as the sister.
No one said babysitting was easy, right? What makes this mix of drama and comedy attractive, in addition to the performances, is how they manage to gain the viewer's empathy, so that one is left with a great taste in the mouth. The best of indie cinema.
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Writer/director Mike Mills's ode to the awkward, quirky ickiness of starting families and raising children, "C'mon C'mon" sees Joaquin Phoenix at his most tender and vulnerable, acting alongside the brilliant newcomer Woody Norman in some truly winsome bouts of borderline familial chemistry between the two actors. The pacing was a bit trying for me throughout most of the film's slightly indulgent length, with some of the stylistic elements also coming off as somewhat self-congratulatory at times (an issue I've had with another one of Mills's films in the past). All in all, though, the film's spirit is pure, making for a consistently adorable watch.
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A podcaster/interviewer (Joaquin Phoenix) embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew, and the two bond and begin to understand each other more as the trip progresses. It's a pretty straightforward film and is very cute and heartwarming at times, but it's also a little TOO straightforward and simple. It tries to fit in a few big and philosophical ideas throughout the film in the dialogue here and there, but really this just came off to me as a cover-up for lack of a truly unique or engaging story. I never felt as though the film had anything particularly unique or interesting to say. On the plus side, Phoenix turns in an always reliably great performance, and even Woody Norman as his nephew manages to hold his own alongside Phoenix astonishingly well. Gaby Hoffman also graces us with a heartfelt supporting turn. Furthermore, the black and white cinematography is beautifully rendered here and gives the feel of classic Woody Allen at times. But overall, the performances and cinematography are all great here, but they can't quite make up for a relatively straightforward and unremarkable story and script.
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Nice antinatalism film. Helpful demonstration of what a waste of time it is to spend your limited time on this earth worrying about and raising a child. You either do it properly and it consumes most of your life, or you do it poorly and thus shouldn’t do it at all.
A salient quote from the movie: “nobody knows what they’re doing with these kids but they keep doing it”. If only more people would stop to think “should we be doing this” before creating more children.
But I have to give this film a poor rating because it missed a very important theme: how unhealthy people are creating unhealthy children who will suffer from that poor health. It results in a society full of diseased, poorly functioning people, resulting in the dystopia we’re currently living in.
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
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Production Company
A24,
Be Funny When You Can
Release Date Nov 19, 2021
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating R
Genres
Awards
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
DiscussingFilm Critic Awards
• 4 Nominations
Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Awards
• 3 Nominations
