While the framing of cinematographer Gerardo Guerra has a steady calm, González uses every inch of it from side to side and top to bottom to such a consummate degree that even the subtitles have to make way at one point.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 2, 2023

... The sober dissection of a woman on the brink, at any moment, of a possible emotional derailment. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 30, 2023

an eloquent portrait of an individual – María, the owner of a tequila factory, yet it is as much a portrait of the land and the community, as the three are so closely interconnected.

| Mar 3, 2023

There’s a heaviness to [DOS ESTACIONES], but also there’s hope.

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

Delicate and subtle in its harshness and austerity, Dos Estaciones is deeply human, enigmatic in its denouncement, and heart-wrenching. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2022

[It] delivers on the tracing of a melodrama on top of the impeccable illusion of realism.

| Nov 22, 2022

It’s easy to admire Dos Estaciones’ fine craftsmanship, but harder to get involved in its chilly air of formal distance from a story whose heated emotions, however repressed, ought to have more impact.

| Nov 21, 2022

Despite contemplative on occasion, it carries this subtly underlying tension that bites consistently.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2022

Dos estaciones doesn't want to dive into that [a woman's role in a man's world] and focuses too much on tequila production with the static gaze of a documentary... [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 26, 2022

An angry film, and rightfully so, but it is also an achingly human and disarmingly beautiful one.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 9, 2022

González has exhibited masterful control in his filmmaking. He has crafted a drama with the same care and attention that María employs when making a bottle of her tequila. Dos Estaciones is a remarkable achievement.

| Sep 9, 2022

[B]y the end of co-writer/director Juan Pablo González's too-restrained drama, we have seen little of and learned even less about this character.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2022

At once specific and expansive, “Dos Estaciones” can be described several ways: as a drama, a character study, a meditative exploration of the ravages of globalization.

| Sep 8, 2022

Genuinely poignant, captivating and refreshingly understated. Teresa Sánchez gives a nuanced, tender and heartfelt performance brimming with warmth and charisma.

| Sep 8, 2022

For all its lush cinematography, capturing regional custom and dramatic panoramas alike, this is a film about repression, an inhibition that no amount of tequila can take away.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2022

The tensions in Dos estaciones roil beneath the calm, contemplative stillness of González’s prosaic visuals, with its penchant for unfussy long takes, and Sánchez’s tightly coiled and disciplined performance...

| Jul 27, 2022

"Dos Estaciones" is a story of the perseverance found in many everyday people, told with focus and affection.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 11, 2022

It’s rare when a debut feature strikes the perfect balance of ingredients, and especially rare when it does so in a distinctive and memorable way. Writer-director Juan Pablo González achieves precisely this in Dos Estaciones.

| May 4, 2022

While all of these very precise images are lensed with beautiful attention to color and mise en scène, that their conceits are played out so frequently ... leaves the work hardened and removed from affect come its coda.

| Apr 27, 2022

Shot with a documentary style approach, this film takes a look on how foreign competition can directly affect Mexican tequila factories (hopefully it'll persuade you to purchase authentic Mexican tequila)

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2022