Rotten
This film overstays its welcome and has pacing problems. But its eclectic characters certainly linger.
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
Overview
A mother of three daughters (one died at the age of three) commits a crime of conscience and becomes radicalized in prison; she turns into an idealist run amok, determined to change her little corner of the world for the better. Her middle daughter, with a physician for a father, an older sister who joins Doctors Without Borders, and a baby sister who dies, is fanatically trying to find a place for herself in this family of overachievers.
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Rotten
It's a good thing writer-director Jeff Lipsky is a film distributor in real life. He's his own best hope for getting this dreck out there.
Katharine Pushkar, New York Daily News
Rotten
Things just happen to the Smith family, with illness and incarceration treated like trials to be endured.
Serena Donadoni, Village Voice
Rotten
"Mad Women" is punishingly dull and apparently aimless, without any real conflict driving the story, just confounding and ridiculous interactions among the characters.
Los Angeles Times
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