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

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

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

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

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

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

With the fusing of fictional sensibilities and non-fiction elements an increasingly appealing alchemy for filmmakers, González shows he's as talented as anyone at this emerging genres rewarding visual and thematic possibilities.

| Feb 18, 2022

It's filled with great performances, the cinematography is stunning, and its slow-burn story is effectively well-told. There are some real moments of beauty in this one.

| Jan 28, 2022

The mannered, deliberate pace of González's filmmaking matches Maria's dignified reverence for her craft.

| Jan 26, 2022

Mexican actress Teresa Sánchez was gifted with a face made for the cinema, as is evidenced during a tight and long close-up late in director Juan Pablo González's starkly subdued drama Dos Estaciones.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 25, 2022

Dos Estaciones is as sobering as they come - but it's also a bracingly potent distillation of drama, psychological portraiture and passionate flouting of clichés, both national and sexual.

| Jan 25, 2022