The Mother and the Bear Review: New Year, New Mom, in Johnny Ma's Sweet and Slight Comedy
Johnny Ma's The Mother and the Bear ushers in the 2026 cinema slate — and the upcoming Lunar New Year, in February — with a gentle kick of the heart in the vein of While You Were Sleeping. It's been a long road for Ma's film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024, but perhaps that's just as well: its sweet and simple depiction of a Chinese mother and her Canadian immigrant daughter feels like the right, earnest opening salvo for a hopeful new beginning.
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