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Spain, France · 2015
Rated R · 1h 51m
Director Julio Medem
Starring Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia, Teo Planell
Genre Drama

Magda is an unemployed teacher who is diagnosed with breast cancer. All seems to be lost as she tries desperately to battle the disease threatening to claim her life, but finds unexpected hope in the strengthening bonds with those around her.

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The New York Times by Andy Webster

Penélope Cruz is an Oscar-winning actress we don’t see often enough in prominent leading roles. So how disappointing to find her having to carry Julio Medem’s florid Ma Ma, a melodrama only glancing at profundity.

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IndieWire by David Ehrlich

Cruz is radiant in her role, finding inner strength even when the script pushes Magda towards blind hope, and finding pain even when Medem insists that cancer hits with all the force of a bad night's sleep.

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

Julio Medem’s film is a smiling-through-tears saga whose generally tasteful execution can’t ultimately salvage a whopping load of maudlin contrivance, all designed to burnish the halo around St. Penelope.

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Observer by Rex Reed

A sensitive career-changing performance by luminous Penélope Cruz dominates the Spanish film Ma Ma, but there’s no escaping the fact that the rest of it is not much more than a dreary, tear-stained soap opera.

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RogerEbert.com by Susan Wloszczyna

More important than the washed-out blue-tinged rooms, bleached white interiors and sun-blasted sea and sand is Cruz, who single-handedly breathes a sense of genuineness into this maudlin exercise even if she can’t cure all of its flaws.

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