Understated, honest, and unflinching, Acasa, My Home is a stunning portrayal of a family caught in a unique upheaval.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2025

ACASA, MY HOME is a documentary about a family which has been living in the Bucharest delta for twenty years with few modern conveniences. Then the government turns the delta into a nature preserve and the family must leave the delta and live in the city.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 18, 2022

Acasa, My Home is an essential document of a nation ever in flux, and of what individual lives are disrupted and cast aside in the churn of progress.

| Dec 3, 2021

This is observational filmmaking at its finest, so proximate to these people and their story that for moments I forgot I was watching a documentary...

| Dec 3, 2021

Most of this unfolds so cinematically it's easy to forget you're watching a documentary until Prince Charles, a conservation proponent, shows up to attend the park's groundbreaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2021

Ciorniciuc and his co-writer Lina Vdovîi, in allowing events to unfold slowly in front of the camera, have created a beautifully measured portrait of an amazingly resonant topic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2021

Acasa, My Home is a film that shows far more than it tells, but since Ciorniciuc shoots it from the perspective of the Enache family, it's natural for the viewer to take their side.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 7, 2021

Strong camera work follows a family from paradise to the promise, as yet unfulfilled, of urban upward mobility.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 8, 2021

Ciorniciuc extractsa seamless narrative with his compelling cinema verite style, yet he fails to fully explore the toxic patriarch at the story's heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2021

At only 86 minutes, Ciorniciuc and editor Andrei Gorgan rarely allow their story to lag, although it's lack of any big climaxes mean broader appeal like that attained by Collective is harder to figure.

| Jan 25, 2021

Acasa is fascinating and complicated, lyrical and messy; we sympathize with the subjects while also feeling society's spasm of impatience with them.

| Jan 23, 2021

Rică, like Acasă, My Home itself, meditates on how we define a life worth choosing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2021

This intimate documentary powerfully asks the question 'which of the places we live is destined to be remembered as home?'

| Jan 22, 2021

Acasa conceals multitudes within its deceptively simple story about real people confronting inexorable change. It's the first great documentary of 2021.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 21, 2021

It ruminates powerfully on the meaning of freedom, positing that our only chance at control may be a place far, far away from civilization, a place where the reeds sway gently and the fish are plenty.

| Original Score: B | Jan 18, 2021

It's a remarkable piece of documentary access.

| Jan 16, 2021

It's a very empathetic portrait, but it also shows the complexity of this family... I think it's most poignant when it focuses on the children.

| Jan 16, 2021

Needless to say, the point of Ciorniciuc's immersive, lively, warm and heartbreaking film is not to see the Enaches in the park as total paradise and their stab at urban living as some terrible detour into restrictiveness.

| Jan 16, 2021

While the meandering sensibility of "Acasa, My Home" makes it a tough sit at times, the spell it casts through its all-access dive into subterranean life brought to the surface forms a compelling addition to one of international cinema's deepest.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 16, 2021

The secret of this beautiful, bittersweet film about a group of people like no other is that, in the end, it's all so shockingly relatable.

| Jan 15, 2021