"Cruz is terrifically good value here - the film is essentially hers, and she navigates the plot's numerous emotional peaks and chasms like a seasoned Sherpa."
★★★★ Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph 

"A film that's bent by hardship and pierced by tragedy but it finally bows out with a message of hope."
★★★★ Xan Brooks, The Guardian

"From opening frame to closing titles, this is resoundingly, exquisitely, the Penélope Cruz show. But with a lesson in Spanish history."
★★★★ Kevin Maher, The Times 

"Parallel Mothers" is many things at once: a thriller about parentage, a meditation on motherhood."
★★★★ Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post