90
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
We observe moments of living rather than the beats of a story, all that natural lighting and everyday quiet stirring the sense of lives taking shape before our eyes.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
80
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Although this quietly daring, decidedly nonjudgmental film doesn’t ask or answer a lot of questions, it paints a cumulatively vivid portrait of young love and early motherhood.
88
Valérie Massadian's Milla begins with a stylistic bait-and-switch that neatly summarizes the film's overall sense of formal balance.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
The emotional moments that push her life in new directions must be colored in by the audience. Though that never feels like much of an intellectual challenge, and the 127-minute film is in no hurry to paint its picture, something about Milla's ordinariness makes her worth getting to know.
100
The New York Times by Teo Bugbee
Milla is a major achievement, a film that is at once as delicate as it is strong, a fitting testament to motherhood, to survival.