How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies isn't the epitome of originality, nor does it need to be. It delivers exactly what it promises: a beautiful and tender story...[Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2025

A prickly picture that examines the many forms that family dysfunction can take.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2025

Manages to transcend the trappings that a movie with a similar logline would willingly drown in, placing the intricacies of its principal relationship at the forefront as opposed to leaning to unnatural antagonism.

| Original Score: B | Feb 25, 2025

... A display of modest sentimentalism and a clumsy commitment to the stillness of objects and the laconicism of existence only reveal a bad disciple of Yasujiro Ozu, via Hirokazu Kore-eda. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 4, 2025

Because you can come from a culture that is practically unknown within the practice of other cultures, but what How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies tells us is universal. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 1, 2025

This is a remarkable film, full of life and happiness and sorrow, that will live with me as long as I'm around. I loved every minute of it, and look forward to crying with it again soon.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 31, 2025

A melodrama that is as exquisitely obvious as it is unmissable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2025

It could have been just another feel-good movie, adorned with localisms, but it is more than that. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 25, 2025

It expresses more sentimentality than necessary, underscored by overwhelming piano notes, but it is a cozy, lively, and charming work and is impeccably executed. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2025

[How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies] is a perfect example of a movie about the journey rather than the destination.

| Jan 21, 2025

The comedy is not quite so dark that her dysfunctional family have murderous plans — but elbows are still sharpened in a tale of everyday avarice.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2025

It's a good, solid bittersweet dramedy about families and family legacies.

| Jan 14, 2025

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies is a charming and poignant story about family loyalty and love when dealing with complicated issues of caregiving for elderly people. The movie doesn't shy away from problems that arise from greed and betrayals.

| Jan 8, 2025

Strong ensemble acting makes the family a believable unit, their differences notwithstanding. But it’s the evolving rapport between M and Amah that makes the film so captivating.

| Jan 7, 2025

Its genuinely difficult to think of a better feature debut in recent memory than How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. This being the first movie of Pat Boonnitipat and Usha Seamkhum is genuinely remarkable.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 7, 2025

Director Pat Boonnitipat makes no effort to conceal the sentimental underpinnings of his story of reunion and reconciliation, and follows his characters with attention and honesty. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 7, 2025

... This wise, playful and deeply poignant film speaks to all the hidden ways that love does its work.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 3, 2025

An audience-pleasing tear-jerker that set box-office records across southeast Asia, this heartfelt comedy drama is Thailand’s official submission for the Oscars.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2025

A droll, perceptive and shamelessly sentimental look at generational tensions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2024

While its themes are deeply familiar to Indian viewers, the subtle handling of family dynamics is leagues ahead of the average local tearjerker.

| Dec 30, 2024