This is a cliché. at this point, but Ema does really feel more like an experience, or a piece of performance art, as opposed to a standard narrative film.

| Feb 23, 2024

A portrait of a woman that's out of touch with reality, who isn't asking for freedoms but taking them, yet she's taking them from within a bubble that's unrealistic, crazy, misplaced, psychopathic, and so selfish... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 11, 2023

Ema is a challenge to the walls we build around ourselves, to the baggage we leave behind for our children and the folly of the damage we can do to each other.

| Jun 5, 2023

Almost certainly a bad movie but in ways idiosyncratic and lively enough that it’s a fiasco rather than a straight failure.

| Dec 2, 2022

A film about love, treason, mental instability, maternity, youth and sex beautifully shot by Sergio Armstrong and frenetically scored by Nicolas Jaar. Everyone here is a victim or a complice of Ema's craziness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 23, 2022

Pablo Larraín's Ema is a character study in the guise of an erotic thriller. Recommended for adventurous Latin American, world cinema, and modern dance collections.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2022

If you can deal with the frustration, you'll be rewarded with some of the most uniquely striking filmmaking you'll see all year.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 10, 2022

Ema feels like the work of a filmmaker at his most passionate and energized, and it's an invigorating experience to behold.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 20, 2022

Girolamo's ability to carry the film on her shoulders is undeniable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2022

It is, perhaps, Larrain's most formally daring work - a veritable knockout that burns just as brightly and fearfully as its wounded protagonist.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 18, 2022

Ema is a vivid, visceral, adult and mostly bloody good way to spend a couple of hours.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2021

Both in her dance moves and her acting, de Girolámo channels the pain and rage Ema is processing, as she pushes to have it all - artistic freedom, sexual liberation, family comfort - on her own terms, no matter the cost.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2021

The searing dangers of fire, threadbare martial bonds, extended family, agonizing regret, and the evocative power of dance crackle with avant-garde energy in "Ema."

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 24, 2021

It's the kind of film that doesn't give up its secrets easily, but if you are willing to enter the world Larraín creates for you, the experience is profoundly rewarding.

| Sep 16, 2021

An electric modern tragedy that, while beautiful, manages to dig incessantly under your skin long after its run time.

| Sep 13, 2021

Beautiful to behold, both visually and sonically- Larrain's oft cinematographer Sergio Armstrong is in electric top form here, and the thrumming score by Nicolas Jaar deserves particular credit

| Sep 9, 2021

Pity that the zaniness of the plot prevented Larraín from succeeding this time.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2021

Director Pablo Larraín's erotically charged Ema sets the screen ablaze with its magnetic star Mariana Di Girolamo.

| Sep 6, 2021

It was refreshing to spend time with a movie that feels like it came from another era, one in which puzzling the audience was an acceptable gambit for moviemaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2021

The visuals are striking... But narratively, it's weird. It's a weird, off-putting movie, and I didn't really want to be involved.

| Aug 28, 2021