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Pah to logic and believability!
Cath Clarke, Time Out
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ma ma
Overview
After finding a lump in one of her breasts, Magda goes to visit her doctor who gives her bad news: she needs a mastectomy, preceded by severe chemo treatments. While she ponders this ill fortune at a soccer game where her son Dani participates, she attracts the attention of talent scout Arturo, who is looking for talented young players to enroll them in the junior leagues.
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Rotten
Not unlike Ali MacGraw in the equally apocryphal Love Story, the closer our heroine inches toward death's door, the more physically attractive she becomes. Phooey!
Scott Marks, San Diego Reader
Fresh
This is an old-school tearjerker, designed to get audiences sniffling in the dark.
Randy Cordova, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Long before anyone in "Ma Ma" expires, the movie does.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten
"Ma Ma" clearly wants to be tearjerker, but there's no need to have tissues handy for this one.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
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