The director finds an attractive face to religious monotony and manages to move us without fatalities or low blows. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 18, 2022

A small, modest film that explores geography and character's emotions... [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 4, 2022

A small wonder of a film, a beautiful and bittersweet ode to the love shared by a father and son that resonates in powerful and unexpected ways.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 7, 2019

At its best, Alamar affirms that the "patient, meditative" film or the stylistic exercise is far less of a cinema pestilence than emotionally cynical works like Life During Wartime.

| Jul 1, 2013

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2011

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 26, 2011

Alamar is a slow, beautiful meditation on nature, family and the relationship between father and son.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 25, 2011

It's hard to tell whether this line has been scripted or captured, but it packs an emotional punch all the same.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 25, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2011

So little is said on any subject that we're free to make our own conclusions about the world Natan inhabits.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 25, 2011

An extraordinary portrait of a positive and meaningful father-son relationship that touches the heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 12, 2011

A beautifully shot and carefully nuanced look at the forging of a bond between a father and a son.

| Jan 10, 2011

The opposite of stimulating storytelling: It's a pseudo-vacation.

| Jan 7, 2011

"Alamar" takes a lyrical approach to a story about father-son bonding in the tropics. It's as sketchy as it is beautiful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2010

Mexico's Alamar arrives like a breath of fresh air reminding us of cinema's potential for simple and elegant beauty.

| Nov 12, 2010

Magical portrait of one five-year-old's summer with his fisherman father

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 11, 2010

Even with the cast playing themselves and a good premise, the idea to script only some of the film ends up creating a series of disconnected sequences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2010

A remarkably pure cinema experience, not just because it's about selfless parental devotion but because the film itself has been stripped down to the basics.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 4, 2010

It is to Gonzlez-Rubio's credit that he can celebrate nature so joyously, yet suggest neither the preferred lifestyle of either parent is superior to the other.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 14, 2010

As much home movie as neorealist non-narrative, Alamar provides a nearly hypnotic immersion in the brilliantly aqua, impossibly tranquil Caribbean -- a Paradise Regained not just for Natan but for everyone.

| Oct 14, 2010