Critic Reviews

Hers delivers a hard lesson about the healing power of love and acceptance with simple and unsentimental eloquence.

For all that emotional content, Amanda is a pleasingly unsentimental film, never more so than in its understanding of children.

The film — in tandem with Lacoste’s lovely, unguarded performance — works as a magnified study in coping, charting the stages of his jumpstarted growing-up alongside the more meandering course of his grief.

Hers’s stamp as a contemplative miniaturist with an eye for the inner life is unmistakeably on display in this involving, typically graceful piece.

The film shies away from any kind of political commentary, and as a result feels oddly sapped of fire or urgency.

[A] good-natured and well-intentioned film.

In its favor, Amanda boasts subtle, sensitive lead performances from Lacoste and Multrier, who has a rare easy naturalism for such a young performer.