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80A deeply personal, often wrenching documentary.
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80A marvelously compressed and immaculately constructed work.
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70Conn is exasperating and heroic in equal measure, an altogether riveting portrait of motherly devotion at its most primal.
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70Above all, it's a testament to the will to live and how that spirit can be found in even the smallest of packages.
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70Pic can be taken as either inspirational or cautionary, but either way rivets attention on the efforts of both medical science and Conn herself to keep the little guy alive.
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63Deeply personal film that often feels more like an artfully produced home video than a documentary.
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60Guaranteed to polarize audiences. Is her insistence on taking every measure possible to save little Nicholas heroic or monumentally self-serving?
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50But with her penchant for frilly romance and sentimentality, the focus is often, cloyingly, on Conn as the heroine of the story, the mother who (sob!) wouldn't give up.
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50Weighing in at almost exactly one pound and unable to breathe or eat on his own, Nicholas James Baba-Conn seemed doomed to a very short life; his chance for survival was calculated at close to zero.
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40While Conn's story is inherently compelling, it's pretty much ruined in the telling thanks to her unnerving choice to fill it with a twinkling piano-heavy score, florid narration, and trembling slow-motion.
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38Your baby is near death. Instead of dropping everything to save his life, you make sure the video camera keeps rolling.
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