Sorelle’s gentle beauty of a film is no downer, reflecting a resilient culture that refuses to be bulldozed over to make way for luxury homes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 16, 2024

It’s the kind that dares us to look back and consider what it means to create a home away from the shores where you were born, in a country hostile not just to your betterment but to your very survival.

| Oct 1, 2024

“Mountains” immerses us in its universe because the filmmakers want to make clear what will be lost by the current and impending gentrification of the area.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 13, 2024

“Mountains” does what it sets out to do with grace, and a sure instinct for music, color, faces and moments of decision regarding where we’ve come.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2024

The strength of Sorelle’s storytelling hinges on how she divulges these points not in verbose dialogue or forced confrontations, but through the ambivalent emotions that coat all human drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 27, 2024

It’ll be a challenge to find another film character this year with a richer, more realized internal life.

| Original Score: A | Aug 23, 2024

[Mountains] is too low-key to leave much of an impression. But as a portrait of intergenerational tensions in an immigrant family, it is poignant, and it captures an area of Miami that is rarely seen onscreen.

| Aug 22, 2024

As a leading man, Nazaire is such a compelling, unguarded screen presence that it takes a while before the realization hits that the film’s politely studied relationships aren’t going anywhere at all.

| Aug 17, 2024

Mountains interprets leisure not so much as the opposite of work or struggle, but a stance that can and should suffuse each moment of life, not discounting those we sell to make a living.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2024

Quietly beautiful.

| Jun 17, 2023