With exceptional subtlety, the director takes us through various genres and unexpectedly disembogues into a love story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 9, 2022

... first-time actor Fernando Lujn is a delight, equal to Enrique Arreola and Angelina Pelez. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2018

Thanks to Lujan, it's very funny.

| Jun 18, 2015

Lujn, a veteran of over 100 Spanish-language movies and television programs,... finds just the right tone to make Jos's dilemma both poignant and humorous.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 4, 2011

An unexpectedly droll tale about a funeral, "Nora's Will" demonstrates the power of some people to reach beyond the grave.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2011

Although there are conflicts and revelations, the movie takes a low-key approach to it all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2011

Yes, you read that right: Jewish suicide comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2011

This is a very wise film, without any stench of didacticism: Through it all, the abiding power - like the strong force of an atomic bond - is not love exactly, but relationship, the net that wraps us all together and holds us fast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2011

Nora's orchestrated suicide may have been a clever gimmick on the page, but onscreen it's a profoundly s----y thing to do to her loved ones.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2011

Lujan does what only the best actors can -- infusing the slightness not with actual substance but at least with the idea of substance, with a road map to where the writer could have located it. In Nora's Will, his performance points the way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2011

Chenillo is a smart filmmaker, but the film is too tidy. Maybe next time out, she'll really get her hands dirty.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2011

In her feature film debut, Mexican writer/director Mariana Chenillo has woven a genuine charmer, tartly funny and irreverent yet warm and poignant, a testament to enduring love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 3, 2011

... a complex, nuanced, darkly amusing, yet poignant film.

| Feb 16, 2011

Softly rendered by Mariana Chenillo, the first woman to win a Mexican Academy Award for best director, and the quotidian rhythms are reminiscent of the recent Italian film "Mid-August Lunch."

| Original Score: B | Dec 9, 2010

Another film about a family meal, "Nora's Will' is a fascinating glimpse into a Mexican-Jewish community and a nicely told, more-than-slightly twisted fable of love.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 2, 2010

The tone is tricky, sliding along a tightrope of farce and wistfulness, but Lujn especially walks it like a pro, his ruined leonine face registering cynicism, shock, and the embarrassment of grief.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2010

Chenillo maintains a tone of gentle absurdity until the sentimental ending.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2010

Chenillo doesn't have a galvanic visual style but her film is filled with small, observant moments when the humanity of these people peeps through the low-key shenanigans. It's a bittersweet farce.

| Original Score: B | Nov 22, 2010

A fantastic first feature from rising director Mariana Chenillo. Watch for her.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 10, 2010

Though this is her first feature, writer-director Mariana Chenillo displays great sureness of touch behind the camera.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2010