Casa de los Babys. In: timeout.com. Archiviert vom Original am 4. Februar 2013; abgerufen am 28. Juli 2023 (englisch): „offers an immensely entertaining and intelligent look at life’s mad lottery“
Casa de los Babys. In: Film Threat. 10. November 2003, abgerufen am 6. März 2009 (englisch): „Ultimately, we realize that the foreign adoption process is larger than any single person or newborn baby. […] All in all, the film just tries to do too much. The process of adopting a child has all kinds of social, psychological, and physical stresses that cannot possibly be addressed rationally across six main characters, let alone in a two-hour time frame. Add to that the complexities of dealing with a foreign government and bureaucracy that operate on their own time table, with their own rules, cultural nuances, and language barriers and you have at minimum, a ten hour miniseries. […] Even though we do get to know a little about their past and their intentions, we don’t get to grow with them nor do we get to experience the final joy of all their efforts and goodwill. […] it all comes down to a foreign bureaucrat rolling the dice“
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Harvey S. Karten: Casa de los babys (2003). In: rec.arts.movies.reviews. 2003, abgerufen am 6. März 2009 (englisch, bei IMDb): „Some may complain that the writer-director is overly naturalistic, punctuating ordinary conversations between people that you might hear in your neighborhood supermarket“
Steve Rhodes: Casa de los babys (2003). In: rec.arts.movies.reviews. 2003, abgerufen am 6. März 2009 (englisch, bei IMDb): „a preachy story about six neurotic American women […] If you weren’t aware that Americans have a much higher standard of living than Latin Americans […] CASA DE LOS BABYS is a reasonable choice“
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Stephen Holden: Casa de Los Babys (2003). In: The New York Times. 19. September 2003, abgerufen am 6. März 2009 (englisch): „as far as you can get from escapist movie entertainment and still call it fictional. […] rooted in Mr. Sayles’s profound awareness of the degree to which the personal is political […] you can’t help wondering what kind of mother each will be“
David Rooney: Casa de los Babys Review. In: variety.com. 25. August 2003, archiviert vom Original am 27. September 2008; abgerufen am 28. Juli 2023 (englisch): „The six lead actresses in „Casa de los Babys“ appear convinced that by wearing little or no makeup, they’re playing real women. […] an entirely schematic treatise […] Punctuated by montages of fat-cheeked Latino babies“
Ed Gonzalez: Casa de los Babys. In: slantmagazine.com. 6. August 2003, archiviert vom Original am 22. April 2005; abgerufen am 28. Juli 2023 (englisch): „dropping into the lives of the film’s women with little-to-no introductions and pulls out before anything is ever resolved. […] By film’s end, Sayles likens the struggle of the film’s women to both a lottery and astrological fate. […] But if the film is less than the sum of its parts, you won’t find parts as delicate and devastating“
Casa de los Babys. In: timeout.com. Archiviert vom Original am 4. Februar 2013; abgerufen am 28. Juli 2023 (englisch): „offers an immensely entertaining and intelligent look at life’s mad lottery“
Desson Howe: Sayles’s Baby Blues. In: The Washington Post. 3. Oktober 2003, abgerufen am 6. März 2009 (englisch): „he seems to pull the plug, as if he’s suddenly had it or just plain ran out of time. […] but he’s stuck with a tin ear for subtlety. […] Sayles pokes at these cliches and secondhand ideas and tries to turn them over thoughtfully, but he doesn’t seem to find much under them. […] Perhaps the best dramatic exchange is between a local maid, who speaks no English, and one of the visitors, who doesn’t know a word of Spanish. They exchange heartfelt feelings about motherhood and children without understanding each other, somehow connecting in spite of everything. This is the kind of on-the-money encounter we could have enjoyed more of, but Sayles is too busy searching for deeper truths to notice“
David Rooney: Casa de los Babys Review. In: variety.com. 25. August 2003, archiviert vom Original am 27. September 2008; abgerufen am 28. Juli 2023 (englisch): „The six lead actresses in „Casa de los Babys“ appear convinced that by wearing little or no makeup, they’re playing real women. […] an entirely schematic treatise […] Punctuated by montages of fat-cheeked Latino babies“
Ed Gonzalez: Casa de los Babys. In: slantmagazine.com. 6. August 2003, archiviert vom Original am 22. April 2005; abgerufen am 28. Juli 2023 (englisch): „dropping into the lives of the film’s women with little-to-no introductions and pulls out before anything is ever resolved. […] By film’s end, Sayles likens the struggle of the film’s women to both a lottery and astrological fate. […] But if the film is less than the sum of its parts, you won’t find parts as delicate and devastating“