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

Simón is attentive to the family as a complex unit, depicting it as a thriving mesh of personalities that do not all agree, but which are all bent toward the common ends of labor and survival, like the fibers comprising a muscle.

| Jan 9, 2023

Persuasively lived-in performances... give the Catalan-language picture both its urgent naturalism and its potent sense of anger and injustice.

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

Achieves a satisfying sweetness without sugar-coating, finding notes of bitterness in inner family tensions and dealings with a not always co-operative agricultural co-operative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2023

A subtly heartsore portrait of shared crisis.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2023

Movies about the people who grow our food, who struggle as honest land stewards in a time of heartless industry, are few and far between, making “Alcarràs” a rare gem.

| Jan 5, 2023

The film is a flurry of chatter and labor — picking, digging, lifting, hunting — that drives home the centrality of the farm to the family’s sense of time and togetherness.

| Jan 5, 2023

It is a deeply intelligent, humane drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2023

Driven less by plot than sense of place, Alcarràs draws its sucker-punch of shuddering power from the ambient details that lend that home its history.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 19, 2022

As a tribute to farmers’ way of life, it’s effective and at times moving, but as an exposé of the potential losses that a business-centric green revolution is in the process of incurring, it wants for a stiffer punch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Simón’s on a major roll. Bring on the next one.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2022

While the narrative might have benefited from more robust shaping and momentum, this is a heartfelt drama about the wrenching clash between traditional agriculture and industry.

| Feb 16, 2022

This has all the hallmarks of a very specific film with emotionally wide appeal, a thoughtful essay which can also rattle and hum.

| Feb 15, 2022

It’s hard to imagine a documentary about a non-fictitious Solé family that could truly feel more genuine.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 15, 2022

Catalan writer-director Carla Simón confirms the promise of her debut 'Summer 1993' in this poignant, rippling study of an extended family being forced off their farm.

| Feb 15, 2022