CODA
Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2021, filmmaker Sian Heder's tale follows a CODA – Child of Deaf Adults – who's the only hearing person in her family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, the young woman finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
2021Rating: PG-13112 minsFrance, USAPathé!
DramaFestival & Independent
CODA / Reviews
IndieWire
It may look recognizable, but Heder and her formidable cast and compelling emotion make sure it doesn't sound like anything else out there.
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The Guardian
A mostly likable concoction, but one that's just too formulaic and ultimately rather calculated to secure the emotional response it so desperately wants by the big finale.
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Film Threat
Heder infuses such deep emotion in the movie, it makes up for its lack of narrative originality.
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RogerEbert.com
This is Jones' film and she gives one of those young performances that feel like a pronouncement of someone who will be around for years.
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Vanity Fair
Writer/director Sian Heder, with her exceptional cast, remains in full control of the tone even as the story follows every predictable beat.
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The Times
This improbably charismatic 18-year-old drags you over the bumps with a nuanced turn that veers from vulnerable to defeated to furiously determined.
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A.V. Club
Too much of the film feels more informed by other movies than any real experience.
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Entertainment Weekly
A handful of sitcom-ish moments seem like small glitches in a script that works so winningly to bring the often unseen (or just terminally underexplored) world of deafness to such joyful, ordinary life.
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Slant Magazine
The film is at its most moving in those rare moments when it's capturing the nourishing bonding ritual among a deaf family.
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Vox
Sweet, thoughtful, and unusual in its extensive use of sign language and its casting of deaf actors (including Oscar winner Marlee Matlin), it's the kind of film you can't help but love.
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