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

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

"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

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

| Oct 29, 2020

Very, very visually arresting.

| Mar 30, 2020

Here's a wonderfully mysterious drama with an inscrutable protagonist and a vivid sense of place.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2020

Fire Will Come ends with the haunting image of a half-starved horse wandering across a charred landscape. But its presence feels like a mystery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2020

Laxe has a masterly command of rhythm and pacing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2020

Really grows upon reflection. A crime story wrapped inside a piece of landscape portraiture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2020

There is something a bit unsatisfying about the withheld explanation, but the film's sheer visual beauty commands attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2020

A little slice of life that proves that sometimes less really is more.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2020

Olivier Laxe's film refreshingly occupies an almost uncategorizable cinematic realm.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2019

Strikingly beautiful, meditative, elusive and measured in its pacing, this is a picture which is custom-made for the tastes of sophisticated festival audiences.

| Aug 19, 2019

You know exactly what climax is coming in Oliver Laxe's rustically beautiful rural parable, but its dreamy, mesmeric power lies in the waiting.

| Jun 10, 2019

Takes time to ignite but sparks a powerful blaze.

| May 23, 2019