Powered by Kore-eda's innate restraint and natural empathy, Like Father, Like Son takes these characters to places they never expected to be. It's unnerving for them, of course, but watching so many hearts hanging in the balance is a rare privilege for us.
Hirokazu has crafted a warm and lovely film that suggests the easiest thing about raising a child is embracing how complicated it can be.
「是枝裕和」精心创造了一部温暖有爱的影片，来探讨养育一个孩子这件最简单的事情到底有多么复杂。
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Arizona Republic
This is a difficult film, one that asks questions that can’t really be answered. There are a couple of surprises along the way, but more than anything Koreeda is getting at what really makes a family a family.
Despite the film’s emphasis on Ryota’s transformation, the most piercing moment for me came in the scene in which his wife anguishes over her guilt in not realizing right away, as a mother, that Keita was not her birth son.
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Variety
The director retains his controlled style even as he moves toward a more traditional narrative mode.
导演依旧保持他自己的克制风格，正如他一直追寻的更传统的叙事模式。
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Film.com 电影网
The film is starved for the kind of nuance Kore-eda wields effortlessly elsewhere. What’s left without it is something merely schematic.
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Slant Magazine 偏锋杂志
The film scores all of its thematic points early, commenting intriguingly, if ultimately rather obviously, on the demands of Japanese patriarchy.
时代性的独特父子故事
