Emma Surez brilliantly plays a forceful character in [writer/director] Michel Franco's moral limbo. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2017

The very long development of the premise arrives at a conclusion almost opposite of the initial set up. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2017

... lacks rotundity, both visual and narrative. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 19, 2017

Perhaps it is time to transform these visions of the feminine. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2017

... [Director Michel] Franco's aloof filmmaking betrays a discombobulated mentality that has gotten worse with each of his successive movies. Somebody, please make this all stop.

| Sep 29, 2017

This disquieting look down at motherly love gone to extremes is an object lesson in cinematic tonal control.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2017

It's inevitable not to experience different emotions that lead us to a reflection on the human condition. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 6, 2017

A film with subtle and memorable characters, that deserves to be enjoyed and celebrated. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 3, 2017

A change of direction in the solid multi-award-winning filmography of the young filmmaker. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 13, 2017

A complex film, full of moral thorns that questions the conventional idea of family, filmed with a serene camera that lets the agitation rather be produced by the internal exaltation of the characters, and by the montage. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 29, 2017

Michel Franco addresses the difficult relationship between mothers and daughters, with a detached look that resists easy judgments. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 29, 2017

The absence of logic in the film is such that a pair of unemployed can live in a nice neighborhood buying expensive clothing and even a motorcycle. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 29, 2017

A film that turn us into silent witnesses of the intimacy and secrets of ordinary human beings without judging them, leaving that to the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2017

Franco allows unidimensionality to become an ingredient of its history by denying it growth, suspense, tension, crescendo, humanity, art and development, for not seeking or not wanting to look for a real cinematic discourse. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 26, 2017

A fiction that doesn't take the finger off reality and is emotionally complex since the initial sequence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2017

The only great success of this film is to show a range of female characters that come out of the stereotype, something that is appreciated in the current context. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2017

It's as though Franco's instincts as a screenwriter - pulpy plotting, heightened psychology, murky motivations - are in a constant war of attrition with his instincts as a realist director.

| Original Score: C | Jun 2, 2017

Almost despite itself April's Daughter manages to work on the whole. It's hardly revelatory stuff, but it generates enough emotional suspense to keep things rolling along.

| May 30, 2017

Without breaking from (or evolving) his film style, Mexican director Michel Franco delivers a chilling portrait of a teen mother-to-be.

| May 30, 2017

Franco is a good narrator, but above all he is a professional provocateur. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 2017