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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanIt’s catchy and touching, it weaves the music into the story with a spontaneity that can leave you laughing with pleasure, and it navigates an honest path from despair to belief, which is Carney’s disarmingly sweet calling card.
- 83IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandHewson never sees her as some kind of tarty punchline – neither does Carney, and neither will the audience. You know all that stuff about “strong female characters” who are also “flawed” or “human” or whatever other insane word salad Hollywood is still requiring of its female leads? Here’s a real one.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesThe Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesHewson takes a flawed but good-hearted mess of a character and makes her sympathetic, likable and fully human.
- 80SlashfilmBen PearsonSlashfilmBen PearsonCarney has this genre on lock. No other working filmmaker has consistently captured what he's able to with his movies, zeroing in on the way music can bridge emotional distances.
- 80Vanity FairRichard LawsonVanity FairRichard LawsonFlora and Son played more charming than cloying to me. It’s a nice movie about people who are mostly nice—deep down, anyway.
- 75The PlaylistJason BaileyThe PlaylistJason BaileyIf we’re being honest, Carney isn’t breaking new ground here, and I keep waiting for him to make a movie that will finally fully exhaust his Whole Thing. But Flora and Son is not that movie.
- 75The Film StageJordan RaupThe Film StageJordan RaupWith a lovingly crude sense of humor and finding the perfect star in Hewson to radiate sincere liveliness every moment she’s onscreen, Carney has crafted a winning tale of motherhood and music.
- 70Screen RantMae AbdulbakiScreen RantMae AbdulbakiFlora and Son is energetic, easygoing, and charming. With a great cast, lovely musical numbers, and a stupendous lead performance by Hewson, Carney doesn’t disappoint.
- 67TheWrapNicholas BarberTheWrapNicholas BarberFlora and Son feels more like a scrappy demo tape than a polished album.
- 60The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeAn immensely charming Hewson makes it all seem effortless, though, even as Carney’s manipulative string-pulling threatens to get a bit too forceful, an instinctive and quick-witted actor who drags the film’s sillier, flightier moments back to earth.