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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 72The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerThis wrenching documentary—culminating with commentary from some of the 100 other families who contacted director Roosevelt with similar tales of false-abuse-allegations woe—gives captivating voice to their sorrow and outrage.
- 70Rolling StoneChris VognarRolling StoneChris VognarWith the hospital and its primary representative in the case, Dr. Sally Smith, refusing to cooperate with the filmmakers, Take Care of Maya is necessarily one-sided. That side is rendered with sympathy and sensitivity, and a lingering, frustratingly unanswered question: How exactly does something like this happen?
- 70Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayAn absorbing and challenging film, capturing the frustration of being held in limbo by a system that seems to prioritize punishment over appeals.
- 67IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandThat sense of a story rendered incomplete, of answers we may never fully know, is at the heart of the Kowalskis’ story, but Roosevelt’s film is unable to square that with the constraints and demands of a feature film.
- 40The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanThe New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanTake Care of Maya is grueling, but it is also oddly deficient, wanting for the precision and perspective essential to deriving insight from profound trauma.