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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyJonathan HollandVarietyJonathan HollandLightness of touch, vibrant performances and a sharp script are the hallmarks of this delightful femme comedy.
- 75Miami HeraldConnie OgleMiami HeraldConnie OgleWins you over with this bright sense of humor and its gentle, welcome message of tolerance and acceptance.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenAs My Mother Likes Women gallops along, it picks up speed and takes its characters on a whirlwind tour of Prague before rushing back home. As it accelerates, its texture thins and its story turns strained and eager to please. But it never loses its cheeky sense of humor about love and the havoc it can wreak.
- 63New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThe Spanish writers-directors often overreach for humor, and really overreach for a happy ending. But there's a strong heart beating beneath the foolishness and one wonderful performance from Leonor Watling.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceFortunately, Leonor Watling (who spent most of "Talk to Her" in a coma) plays the spectacularly neurotic middle daughter with dizzying abandon and single-handedly saves the day.
- 50New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoPAGING Pedro Almodovar! We have a movie badly in need of your help.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghIn fact it ends, as all good romantic comedies do, with a wedding, though the identities of the newly married couple might be the least predictable thing about this cheerfully ham-fisted celebration of love and family in modern-day Madrid.
- 50L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorFor a movie with a lesbian theme, My Mother Likes Women is absurdly coy about gay sex. It may be the most heterosexually minded film about lesbians ever made.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenWants keenly to be hip and modern, but really it's just an old-fashioned drawing-room comedy.
- 10Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasThe attempt to find humor in mean-spiritedness is way beyond Paris and Fejerman's abilities, and their last-reel attempt to portray Sofia as an ultimately liberating force for her daughters is as contrived as My Mother Likes Women is repellent.