Alcarràs might not have the deep emotional connection it strives for, but its detailed world of textured characters makes it an experience worth having.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

A moving observation of a family negotiating with traditions.

| Jan 22, 2024

It’s taken a long time to get to general release, but Alcarràs is very much worth the wait.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2023

Simón has created a film that splits the difference between poetry and documentary.

| Sep 21, 2023

For director Simon, that authenticity was what mattered. That she has created such complex, conflicted characters and won such marvelous performances from amateurs is a testament to her powers of empathy.

| Sep 19, 2023

Carla Simón’s naturalistic camera imbeds itself into the Seros family like a quiet observer. She allows the audience to see all the splendour of the Alcarràs region in her wider shots and all the small and intimate moments of the family.

| Original Score: A | Sep 6, 2023

An immersive drama that is subtle, powerful and persuasively authentic, about how three generations in a rural Catalonian family are responding to the loss of their farm

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2023

This is another “end of an era” movie, and a very special one at that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2023

Alcarras reminds us of what we’ve been missing. It’s a beautiful, sad, authentic depiction of the drama within one extended family facing a kind of oblivion.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 28, 2023

Carla Simón’s sophomore feature, the ‘Golden Bear’-winning Alcarràs, is a marvelous depiction of Spain’s agrarian crisis.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 19, 2023

Spanish cinema has produced several stories reflecting the nation’s suburban locale, cultural omnipresence dynamics, and rapid urbanization’s impact. And Alcarràs is an impressive inclusion in this cinematic revolution.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 25, 2023

Simón takes a loose approach to the narrative, letting the small dramas of family play out alongside larger ones, giving as much value to the transient pleasures of fresh peach juice and cooked snails as the tensions between siblings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2023

... A movie that becomes steadily more engrossing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2023

The film’s final beat is devastating, or potentially reassuring, as per the director’s ethos...

| Feb 16, 2023

... A film that expands the realist tradition of Iberian cinema with an original poetic pulse.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 2, 2023

Modernity and tradition, solidarity and placidity amidst capitalism, Alcarràs is truly moving. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 2, 2023

It isn't naïf and certainly, not fatalistic either; its flowing humanist energy is comforting, the kind that can only be found in a loving family. This is paradise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 31, 2023

The actors end up being the true catalyzers of the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2023

It is a very impressively made film, but it's a little bit of a drudgery... [But] it's a very fine film.

| Jan 18, 2023

Free of didacticism and content to remain true to its slice-of-life portrait of a traditional way of life being confronted with the demands of modernity, this film presents an intriguing, if familiar, quandary in a compelling and unique manner.

| Jan 11, 2023