This is an absolutely fantastic movie, a slow-burn drama without the idiotic ham-fisted canned emotion and forced humor that turns so many other dramas into stupidity. This has some real, nerve-jangling suspense and the terror of having to decide and act with no knowledge. True old school classic days of Hollywood quality with an original plot premise, an honest-to-god Joseph Campbell Hero's Journey, and cinematography so good it'll knock your socks off. The actors manage to convey enormous depths of emotional complexity with the tiniest of movements and expressions.

If you're a nitwit just looking for some explosions and idiots shouting drivel, pass on by, this movie is not for you. If you're looking for something smart and complex that truly speaks of the surreal union of life and death, this is the movie for you.

This movie is painfully slow. It could have been edited down to less than half its runtime, and you wouldn't miss anything. Basically you spend two hours watching a woman walk around with a baby while a more interesting, exciting movie happens in the next room. I can't even claim there are good performances because, honestly, I spent two hours with Jean and she seems to have *zero* personality at all. She lets people take her places where things happen to her and she reacts to them. There's maybe 20 minutes of actual action (not talking about shoot-em-up-explosion type action, I mean like characters *doing* things) in the entire movie. Waste of time.

Most gangster movies are written for the men, the women are just sort of disposable or sex objects, or sometimes the good wife or mother. Here you see how a woman being thrown into this life may respond. Initially she is very much in denial, but having a baby to look after, even as initially she is mostly frozen in the immobilization of PTSD, she begins to figure out how to survive with the help of another family who found love and kindness in the midst of the trauma wasteland of the criminal world. The 70's music, cars, fashion was a real bonus. It is also sort of amazing to see a world again in which there weren't cameras on every corner, no phones in everyone's pocket, it seems like it is somehow a more direct relationship with life, a place where things could still happen without everyone knowing...

first 15 min of the baby crying, with no plot drove me insane! not sure I'll recover.

fits perfectly with 2020 - the baby is the best actor. pick better scripts Rachel

Believe the 1 ratings, they’re spot on. This isn’t slow burn, it’s slow leak or slow pour. By the 30 min mark, you will want to walk away. But you’re all in, right? So you stick around to the 45 min. You won’t find relief. Nothing happens. In the last 22 minutes there’s some action and character arc. Your best move is to watch the last 22 minutes. The movie won’t make less sense to you, trust me. Everything you want in a movie, this one lacks. Plot is thin. Acting is staid. Action is non-existent. Relationships are artificial. The story never answers any questions. There is no problem to solve, and there is no resolution. She learns how to use a gun, she shoots someone, she finally gets to drive a car. It’s like a “coming of age” movie, without the stuff you would expect. There are no surprises. Sound was terrible, especially at the beginning, and production value all around isn’t stellar. You thought acting was bad in Twilight? This one’s just as bad. The positive reviews must be a PR company, or crew. There is no redeeming value in this movie.

The baby has been taking a lot of heat in these reviews, and for obvious reasons. Although, if you look at it from a different perspective... he's simply channeling the emotions you'll feel after spending 2 hours watching this movie; Sad and confused. Sad... because you wasted so much time and hope on a movie that takes you nowhere. And confused...at who would do this to you.
Trust me when I say that a better movie, is the trailer. It will save you an hour and fifty seven minutes, spare you endless baby shrills, with the exact same amount of emotional connection to characters, depth of plot and story line, and leave you refreshingly with no regrets. Spoiler alert: she never cooks a good egg

I came onto the reviews to see how anyone could stand watching this movie. I'm a woman. But no sane human being wants to listen to a crying baby. Who ever approved the final cut of this film needs to find a different job. Can you imagine all the people involved to make a film and you ruin it by playing the same crying baby soundbite over and over and over? Oh my God. Shut up! Make teens watch this as a form of birth control.