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  • 2023
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 43 m
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  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 43 m

Summary When 10-year-old Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016, nothing could have prepared her or her family for what they were about to go through. As the medical team tried to understand her rare illness, they began to question the basic truths that bound the Kowalskis together. Suddenly, Maya was in stat...

Directed By: Henry Roosevelt

  • 2023
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2023
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 43 m

Take Care of Maya

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
8.0
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Summary When 10-year-old Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016, nothing could have prepared her or her family for what they were about to go through. As the medical team tried to understand her rare illness, they began to question the basic truths that bound the Kowalskis together. Suddenly, Maya was in stat...

Directed By: Henry Roosevelt

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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72
Jun 20, 2023
This wrenching documentary—culminating with commentary from some of the 100 other families who contacted director Roosevelt with similar tales of false-abuse-allegations woe—gives captivating voice to their sorrow and outrage.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 23, 2023
An absorbing and challenging film, capturing the frustration of being held in limbo by a system that seems to prioritize punishment over appeals.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 20, 2023
With the hospital and its primary representative in the case, Dr. Sally Smith, refusing to cooperate with the filmmakers, Take Care of Maya is necessarily one-sided. That side is rendered with sympathy and sensitivity, and a lingering, frustratingly unanswered question: How exactly does something like this happen?
By Chris Vognar FULL REVIEW
67
Jun 20, 2023
That sense of a story rendered incomplete, of answers we may never fully know, is at the heart of the Kowalskis’ story, but Roosevelt’s film is unable to square that with the constraints and demands of a feature film.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 20, 2023
Take Care of Maya is grueling, but it is also oddly deficient, wanting for the precision and perspective essential to deriving insight from profound trauma.
By Natalia Winkelman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Story Syndicate, Wise Fool
Release Date Jun 19, 2023
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating TV-14
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Website https://www.netflix.com/title/81349305/
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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination

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