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Los Angeles Times
Powered by Kore-eda's innate restraint and natural empathy, Like Father, Like Son takes these characters to places they never expected to be. It's unnerving for them, of course, but watching so many hearts hanging in the balance is a rare privilege for us.
"Father Like Son" is driven by the director's natural restraint and natural empathy of Hirokazu Koreeda, which places characters in situations they would never want to be. It's too unsettling for them, but it's also why we're lucky to see so many unresolved hearts.
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The Playlist
Hirokazu has crafted a warm and lovely film that suggests the easiest thing about raising a child is embracing how complicated it can be
. A film of love that explores just how complicated raising a child is at the simplest of things.
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Arizona Republic
This is a difficult film, one that asks questions that can't really be answered. There are a couple of surprises along the way, but more than anything Koreeda is getting at what really makes a family a family
. A tangled film, a question that cannot really be answered. There are many accidents along the way, but the most important thing is that the director explores what it is all the way to make a family become a family.
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Christian Science Monitor
Despite the film's emphasis on Ryota's transformation, the most piercing moment for me came in the scene in which his wife anguishes over her guilt in not realizing right away , as a mother, that Keita was not her birth son.
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Variety
The director retains his controlled style even as he moves toward a more traditional narrative mode. The director retains
his own restraint style, as he has been pursuing a more traditional narrative mode.
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Film.com
The film is starved for the kind of nuance Kore-eda wields effortlessly elsewhere. What's left without it is something merely schematic.
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Slant Magazine
The film scores all of its thematic points early, commenting intriguingly, if ultimately rather obviously, on the demands of Japanese patriarchy.
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