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  • 2019
  • PG-13
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2019
  • PG-13
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 24 m

Summary In the middle of the night, a 7-year-old boy has gone missing. The crisis has drawn the child’s father Julien (Guillaume Canet) back to a small, snowy town in eastern France in an effort to help. Julien travels abroad for work and has been essentially absent from his son’s life since splitting with his wife (Mélanie Laurent) a few years ...

Directed By: Christian Carion

Written By: Laure Irrmann, Christian Carion

  • 2019
  • PG-13
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2019
  • PG-13
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 24 m

My Son

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the middle of the night, a 7-year-old boy has gone missing. The crisis has drawn the child’s father Julien (Guillaume Canet) back to a small, snowy town in eastern France in an effort to help. Julien travels abroad for work and has been essentially absent from his son’s life since splitting with his wife (Mélanie Laurent) a few years ...

Directed By: Christian Carion

Written By: Laure Irrmann, Christian Carion

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
54
38% Positive
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38% Mixed
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25% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
54
38% Positive
3 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews

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80
May 9, 2019
[An] engrossing, propulsive film.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
75
May 10, 2019
My Son finds its cinematic footing in a committed, steady, realism, and that creates a high-wire act of tension and suspense that’s refreshingly clean and consistently effective.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
63
May 8, 2019
In its modest, stripped-down way, it’s a worthy cousin to the genre stalwarts, anchored in the unvarnished power of Canet’s performance, and the no-nonsense approach to Christian Carion’s direction.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
60
May 6, 2019
It’s got a nervously eerie feel to it that’s grounded in Canet’s gripping turn as a dad out to do good for his estranged family.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
50
May 9, 2019
Themes of parental guilt and the effects of broken families on children are hinted at early but discarded in favor of genre pleasures, which Carion provides to increasingly formulaic effect.
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38
May 7, 2019
The film seeks to elevate genre clichés by slowing down the speed with which they’re typically offered.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
30
May 9, 2019
An endorsement of milquetoast vigilantism that’s not nearly as knotty as it presumes to be, the French thriller “My Son” is so reserved in its storytelling and vague in its details that all it elicits is a yawn.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nord-Ouest Films, Une Hirondelle Productions, Caneo Films, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, CN6 Productions, Orange Cinéma Séries, Palatine Étoile 14, SofiTVciné 4, Soficinéma 13, Artémis Productions, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Release Date May 10, 2019
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline A child in danger. A father in pursuit.
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