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Neither earth-shaking nor profound, but it has considerable charm, thanks to an appealing cast and some sharply witty observations about the pressures of child-rearing in Manhattan.
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67Parenthood seems only half aware of Eliza's REAL problem: that she thinks she's superior to the choices she's made.
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67Uma Thurman looks frumpy in Motherhood. This is the only pressing reason to see it.
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The movie's narrative tension hinges on, well, nothing.
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50When it aims for humor, it feels overwrought and clichéd.
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50Though pregnant with possibility, Motherhood fails to deliver.
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40Motherhood doesn't really need a recession to call attention to its flaws. The movie's a perfect dud on its own terms.
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Dieckmann nails the look of a certain niche of urban neo-middle-class living, but the film's hyper-earnest tone and reliance on "day-from-hell" New York clichés overwhelm those details.
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38If Carrie Bradshaw ever trades her Manolos for sneakers and starts blogging about raising children, I pray she wouldn't be as tiresome as the heroine of Katherine Dieckmann's insufferable comedy Motherhood.
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Invites the kind of judgment it condemns.
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30Has shockingly little to say.
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25Thurman is bespectacled again for Motherhood, and it saddens me to report that neither she nor this comedy turns into more than an argument against procreation.
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25Dieckmann fails to notice that Thurman doesn't have the comic chops for the material--she comes off more like a self-pitying loser than a witty, put-upon everywoman.
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20Motherhood's litany of complaints and trite comedy-drama comes off as thin, and targeted, as a flyer for The Children's Place.
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It's a judgmental tale whose only payoff is carpe diem drivel.
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