The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by
Plays like an easy-listening hit.
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Australia · 2020
1h 56m
Director Unjoo Moon
Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Danielle Macdonald, Evan Peters, Damien Strouthos
Genre Drama, Music
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I Am Woman chronicles the life of Australian singer Helen Reddy, best known for her female empowerment anthem of the same name. When she arrives in New York City to launch her career in the 1960s, she has to overcome misogyny and mistreatment from the music industry.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by
Plays like an easy-listening hit.
Helen Reddy might seem so 1970s, but her song "I Am Woman" became a feminist anthem of its time, and serves as the title and centerpiece of a reasonably good movie biography, if one that -- perhaps due to the nature of her life -- feels a little like the Hallmark Channel version of "Bohemian Rhapsody."
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
Even when it veers into familiar territory, I Am Woman remains entertaining and sharply packaged.
The film doesn’t contextualize Reddy within the musical personalities of her era (beyond saying she sure wasn’t cock-rockers Deep Purple, another Wald client), so newbies may well come away with no idea why she had a unique niche in the ’70s entertainment landscape.
San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson
Still, I Am Woman, while it doesn’t roar, effectively tells Reddy’s story and speaks strongly about the women’s movement and the struggle that continues.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
I Am Woman, a pleasant, yet disappointingly trite biopic of the singer Helen Reddy, has a flatness that’s difficult to ascribe to any one element.
The Guardian by Luke Buckmaster
It is a lean and likeable, if slight and a little trite, celebration of the legendary Australian-American singer, feminist and anthem-creator Helen Reddy, shot with a rich neo-noirish texture by Oscar-winning cinematographer Dion Beebe.
It’s not a great film, with a story that has too much “Lifetime Original Movie” slack and soap operatic touches for its own good. But as Jerry Wald says, “It’s all about timing.”
I’d have been curious to see more about Reddy’s interactions with the women’s movement, but the film mostly has room for this one woman. Thanks to Cobham-Hervey’s performance, it’s an engaging, if fairly familiar, story.
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