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Birthmarked

2018

Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais

Matthew Goode, Toni Collette, Fionnula Flanagan, Michael Smiley ...

5.3

254

Comedy Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.

	Author	Review
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"Likable turns by Toni Collette and Matthew Goode may help it attract a modest audience, but they’re not enough to compensate for the material’s innate flatness."	NEG
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A misguided-science yarn that's not ready to emerge from the lab (...) [It] never sells its premise and looks shoddy"	NEG
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"It’s not likely to challenge your balanced views on the topic of 'nurture' vs. 'nature' (...) [It] does provide some quirky laughs along the way (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Adam Graham Detroit News	"Director Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais shows he can do a pretty good [Wes] Anderson, but this experiment, otherwise, feels incomplete."	NEU
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times	"A satire that's unable to deliver on a promising hypothesis (...) A failed experiment"	NEG

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