The film reflects a dark page in Brazilian history, but because it’s too tidy and airtight, it fails to leave much of an impression by remaining in a passive state of subtlety.

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

With an original and moving vision, excellent character development, and a wonderful performance by Torres, Salas brings the memory of this historical episode to life, a reminder that, beyond Brazil, remains relevant worldwide. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 22, 2025

Although he plays the story straight, Salles sentimentalises by sheer perseverance. We begin to wonder if the Paiva family ever has a serious argument or a tantrum that can’t be resolved in an instant.

| Mar 18, 2025

I’m Still Here is a riveting drama, sometimes soaked with dread and difficult to watch. But it’s never inauthentic, especially Torres’ performance, which leaches hope from desiccated soil.

| Mar 17, 2025

A gratifyingly low-key treatment of very emotional and volatile material.

| Original Score: A | Mar 17, 2025

Fernanda Torres’s quietly affecting performance dominates Walter Salles’s Oscar-winning political drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 13, 2025

Fernanda Torres is the doggedly beating heart of grace under pressure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2025

I’m Still Here shows even the bleakest stories can be beautifully lined with optimism.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 12, 2025

One of the most powerful films I have seen on the subject, treating it with respect and intimacy, I'm Still Here is a punch to the gut, but a good one.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 12, 2025

I'm Still Here offers an emotional journey that leaves us deeply impacted by its celebration of resilience and hope, a theme captured by Salles’ classic and well-crafted direction and Fernanda Torres’ unforgettable performance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 10, 2025

[I'm Still Here] aims to illustrate that forced disappearances cause enormous psychological traumas to those left behind, but it does so in the absence of the full backdrop.

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

The carnival effect is definitely excessive, but Salles can hardly not know this or not want it... I'm also inclined to imagine that he is presenting, for all audiences, a symptom more than an escape.

| Mar 7, 2025

Fernanda Torres’s performance as Eunice is one of great tribute.

| Mar 4, 2025

This is headstrong, heartfelt world cinema at its finest.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2025

Clearly for Brazilian audiences, the ongoing political volatility there makes the film seem all too relevant. And our own political precarity in the United States makes I’m Still Here positively haunting.

| Mar 3, 2025

I'm Still Here is exactly what its title suggests: a film about being and staying, the relevance of the act of memory and perpetual evocation, the relevance of staying, both in memory and as a subject of affection... [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 3, 2025

Visceral and suspenseful, a chilling account of what can happen to citizens if a regime regards them as dissident that slowly rallies as a grieving wife leads her family beyond the tragedy of loss

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

A beautifully realised film that isn’t marred by its real-life element.

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

As Eunice, Fernanda Torres turns in an outstanding performance marked by restraint, all the rage and grief she can’t openly express.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2025

What makes I’m Still Here come alive is Torres’s faultless performance as the stabilising force in a family’s drift back to compromised normality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2025