What Do the Last Decade’s Worth of Motherhood Movies Have to Tell Us?

You’d be hard-pressed to find a topic more divisive than the state of modern motherhood. While recent books like Angela Garbes’s Like a Mother , Leslie Jamison’s Splinters , and Amanda Hess ’s Second Life have added valuable perspectives—and important nuance—to the so-called “mommy wars,” there’s still no quicker route to madness than spending even five minutes on the r/Motherhood Reddit forums , or debating what it means to be a tradwife .

All the same, in the wake of the COVID crisis; amid a barrage of misinformation about pregnancy and autism ; and as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children ( WIC ) is hamstrung by the government shutdown, the moms, broadly speaking, are not quite alright at the moment. Really, it’s no wonder that