Laxe is one of the most curious filmmakers working right now, and the fact that he hasn’t settled into one storytelling mode yet keeps me curious as to what’s next.

| Dec 2, 2022

The plot is minimal and would only take a couple of lines to describe, but Olivier Laxe's film is about the lack of human communication due to discretion, distrust, and silence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 17, 2022

Unfortunately, it has little emotional force and the characters function as simple figures of clay that are burned over a slow fire only to add some depth to a text as inane as it is pretentious. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 19, 2022

Laxe delivers a surreal, breathtaking opener, and shines a light on the interior struggles of a troubled loner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2021

In the end feels as if the director had little interest in filming anything other than the fire -- and merely constructed the pretense of a story in order to capture it.

| Jun 5, 2021

[Shows] us that there's a path for more poetic and freer Spanish cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 6, 2021

Laxe drives this caravan of non-professional actors from Sierra de Ancares with unobtrusive rigor and delivers a powerful, if poignant, finale that really gets to you in a strange way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2021

Quiet, slow-moving, ambiguous character studies might be a dime a dozen on the festival circuit, but there are few that remind us that there are things out there that still feel as big as myth.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 14, 2020

A mesmerizing film set in Spain in which trees play a major role.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 29, 2020

This beautifully composed offering from Spanish director Oliver Laxe is a compelling, enigmatic watch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 25, 2020

It's a fairly simple plot and one that goes exactly where you expect given the title, but Fire Will Come creates meaning through its mood and sense of place rather than its plot.

| Nov 17, 2020

In their debut films, Amador and Benedicta suggest volumes with few words.

| Nov 16, 2020

"Fire Will Come" is a pithy and devastating masterstroke from an auteur astute in his calibration of subdued emotional impact. Its discourse on forgiveness simmers in one's mind inextinguishably.

| Nov 7, 2020

Fire Will Come is a beautifully shot bit of hypnotic imagery.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 3, 2020

At only 80 minutes and change, Fire Will Come is slim, distilled and as sharp as a shiv to the gut.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 3, 2020

The result is a short and elliptical tale that unfolds at the speed of life and resolves with the hopeful uncertainty of forgiveness itself.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 30, 2020

Amador's story is unfortunately never as emotionally arresting or complex as the film's opening scene.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 30, 2020

Fire Will Come offers no answers about the cause of the inferno, but it does show the consequences...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2020

The flames burn hot, but we never quite warm up. They're nice to look at, though, and that is something.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2020

"Fire Will Come" practically becomes a documentary, and a devastating one at that.

| Oct 29, 2020