The film is sweet but never cloying. The continuity doesn't break because the actors - all excellent - convincingly resemble the others who played the same characters in the past. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 9, 2021

There are moments in My Family that convey Nava's love for these characters. That warmth makes My Family impossible to dislike despite its flaws.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2021

This Hollywood effort at unspooling this seldom heard American story is long overdue.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2021

It is evocative well-crafted and performed with verve and passion by a first-rate cast of Latino actors.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2021

Smits gives a wonderful performance in a film that also stars Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos and actors without household names but with equal talent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2021

The warmth of My Family's characters and humor, the lush-ness of its cinematography and local color, and the universality of its family and sibling conflicts, make for pleasurable company.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2021

One of the most satisfying dramas I've ever seen.

| Aug 26, 2021

Were this superb drama nothing more than a rich exploration of family, it would have been more than enough. But Nava and his cowriter, wife Anna Thomas, offer up layers and nuances.

| Aug 26, 2021

My Family/Mi Familia is a chronicle of Mexican-American life, but it's more than that. Its a universal portrait of family ties, a film to which everyone can relate.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 26, 2021

Though it occasionally slips into sappiness, My Family's big spirit always comes through.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2021

The last segment is the best, so much so that one wishes Nava had left out the first two parts and concentrated on fleshing out the third section.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2021

In its efforts to illustrate various aspects of the Mexican-American experience, a sense of family is one of the film's principal casualties.

| Aug 26, 2021

What makes movie characters come alive are differences, not similarities. My Family could be any family, and thus, is no family at all.

| Original Score: C | Aug 26, 2021

Mi Familia is a grand filmgoing experience, vivid testimony to the strength of both family and good old-fashioned star power.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2021

There's a fearlessness about My Family that commands respect. It goes after both big issues and small moments. Most of all, it beats with an unabashed love of family that in the end, becomes admirable, even inspiring.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 26, 2021

[A] deeply felt but meandering generational drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 26, 2021

My Family is so well intentioned and full of right thinking that you really want to like it, but director-writer Gregory Nava keeps shooting himself in the foot.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 26, 2021

My Family (Mi Familia) simply is one of the best films of 1995 to date: as universal as the subject itself, yet as personal as the title suggests, and as deeply involving as any movie has the right to be.

| Original Score: A | Aug 26, 2021

Nava's direction and writing are complemented by his film's cast which is uniformly excellent Smits.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 26, 2021

Mi Familia cannot help but touch the heart and soul of anyone who sees it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2021