All We Had

Name: All We Had
Director: Katie Holmes
Released: 2016

Synopsis

A mother struggles to make a better life for her daughter.

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Screen Daily
A film directed by Katie Holmes (and produced by Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal) is a curiosity, and in this case a competent curiosity - no less competent than most of the independent films out there.
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Slant Magazine
Katie Holmes's feature-length directorical debut is more earnest than remarkable, but with its heart in the right place.
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The Guardian
It’s Holmes brazen performance that remains the chief drawing point in seeking out All We Had. She burrows deep under the skin of Rita, a woman firmly aware of her many flaws and tragically unable to address them.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Despite its frustratingly wandering narrative, All We Had does manage to pull you in, thanks largely to its moving depiction of the mother-daughter bond at its center.
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Variety
Katie Holmes makes an undistinguished helming debut with All We Had, a middlebrow drama with no pretensions but also no depth.
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Village Voice
The film’s haphazard episodic structure never coheres.
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Los Angeles Times
Holmes’ helming is unremarkable — unlike her and Owens’ acting, which is excellent.
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Entertainment Weekly
The directorial debut of actress Katie Holmes, starring herself as Rita, a drunk single mother living out of her car, is the latest well-intentioned yet lousy-with-clichés treatment in the hard-luck-woman subgenre.