In avoiding romance, Morales and her team explore the value of human life and connection in poignant, delightful detail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2024

Morales has had a steadily successful career as an actress, and more recently has just as quietly built up her director bonafides, and hopefully “Language Lessons” is a sign of a promising new(ish) direction.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 19, 2022

Language Lessons is a poignant “platonic romcom” powered by two persuasive performances from Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales and a soulful script.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

Rather than getting bogged down in grim realities, Morales and Duplass have crafted a sweet ode to the benefits of connectivity and the joy of friendship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2022

A modest story of a personal connection through technology, armed with simplicity and charisma... [Full review in Spanish}

| Jun 14, 2022

A moving story about friendship and human relationships in the age of screens. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 13, 2022

Essential viewing, a miniature masterpiece of humanism that beautifully distills a whole year's worth of love, loss, introspection, and empathy into an hour and a half. It's impossible not to fall in love with it.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 10, 2022

A short 90 minutes, and some gaps in the narrative arent properly explored, and the principal actors don't generate chemistry. Duplass not gay in real life felt like a hetero dude trying to interpret a gay man ... the tone and emotion wasn't there.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2022

If the world of Zoom, and virtual interactions we've been forced into, have us tired, this film will show what can be achieved when we let creativity flow. Full review in Spanish

| Mar 9, 2022

Language Lessons is a rather passable quarantine-impacted comedy that feels close to being something special but never reaches that point.

| Feb 12, 2022

Delivers one of the most moving and accomplished scenes of the year. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2022

Told entirely between the two lead characters speaking via video chat, the format is consistently engaging, and witnessing the narrative unfold is a rewarding experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2021

Morales and Duplass generate enough chemistry to convey the missteps and misunderstandings as a friendship develops. They manage to turn this deceptively simple film into an offbeat love story about the universal language of caring and connection.

| Dec 6, 2021

Inventive, poignant two-character story - using technology to interact.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 6, 2021

Credit goes entirely to writers and stars Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales. She directed the lovely little film.

| Nov 19, 2021

It transcends its limitations - and our FaceTime exhaustion - with some razor-sharp plotting and heaps of emotional honesty.

| Nov 2, 2021

Unique. It's a love story, but a platonic one. It's a pandemic film but there's no Coronavirus. It's a tale of cross-cultural friendship but not a hackneyed one.

| Oct 24, 2021

Morales' assured direction, and the Zoom meeting conceit, really enhances the material.

| Oct 19, 2021

This is Morales' debut movie and if her follow up Plan B is anything as good, then there is a bright future for her behind the camera as well as in front of it.

| Oct 16, 2021

The way Morales is able to run the gamut of her character's emotional transformations almost solely through facial expressions is mesmerizing and profoundly charismatic.

| Sep 18, 2021