Philomena (2013) Reviews & Ratings

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Philomena reviews

Philomena holds a 7.3/10 average from 1,753 TMDB ratings.

With all confidence, the story of the movie is undoubtedly wonderful, and it was exciting and passionate to follow it until the end, but I did not find the dramatic and emotional sense of the mother. I did not find that she really lost her son, but the feelings were mixed. The feelings and sense of losing the son could have been put in the right way better than this. There was no strong flashback showing the mother'…
— Andre Wilfred Sanders (6/10)

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

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