The cinematography, sound design, and editing is as elegant as you’d expect from Cuarón. Not enough good things can be said about Yalitza Aparicio and her performance too, a stunning performance for a non-professional.

| Aug 7, 2024

Roma is a riveting, gut-wrenching, and utterly absorbing experience that completely floored me.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Cuaron does a wise thing by not keeping this story too close to the chest; it's not strictly autobiographical, and serves as his interpretation of what Libo may have experienced, but more importantly the motherly qualities he always saw in her.

| Jul 2, 2024

Alfonso Cauron’s most personal film of his career is his most visual striking film since Children of Men.

| Apr 4, 2024

...This is no coincidence since Roma represents the portrait of a canonical family model that also collapses, which is also consistent with the prominence of an earthquake during one of the most significant scenes of the feature film.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 28, 2023

that is Cuarón’s true magic: when the film is over, although we don’t know exactly how and when it happened, a little part of his Mexico somehow belongs to us too.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2023

Watching Alfonso Cuaron's Roma is almost like flipping through a beautifully-shot album of 1970s Mexico.

| Apr 19, 2023

There’s a deep emotion that comes with the territory and a boldness that is rarely seen and Cuaron, along with a brave performance from Yalitza Aparicio.

| Mar 3, 2023

It truly is a movie of detail with each gorgeous black-and-white shot framed like a richly detailed memory begging to be examined.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Cuaron is a master filmmaker who creates true hyperrealism with Roma, a front seat to everyday life. It’s admirable in its approach and beautifully photographed, but there is an emotional disconnect that can’t be shaken.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Roma is the sort of film described as life-affirming without irony or pretense, as it reminds us of the potential for love, frailty, and unbreakable bonds between people.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 4, 2022

The keen and sensitive understanding of what the lives of women are what Cuaron displays here, and deploys with such enormous empathy...

| Oct 26, 2021

Roma deals in complicated subject matter - socioeconomic inequality, broken families, loss - but never in a way that dehumanizes its characters or detracts from the power of its central story.

| Oct 26, 2021

Alfonso Cuaron's masterful Roma is a semi-autobiographical epic that reminds us that cinema is art.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2021

Roma will be studied for years as a landmark in cinematic storytelling, made even more meaningful because it pays tribute to a character who is usually in the background.

| Oct 26, 2021

A staggering swirl of life, a film that destroys and uplifts simultaneously.

| Original Score: 98/100 | Sep 3, 2021

In her first feature film debut, Aparicio gave a performance that though quiet in execution, was powerful.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 30, 2021

Roma represents a major shift in the movie world.

| Jul 28, 2021

Without a doubt the most essential film of Cuarón's career, and obviously, his most personal

| Original Score: 4.5 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

Roma is a sweeping-yet-intimate story that deserves to be considered among the best of the year, whether you watch it in the theaters or on Netflix.

| Apr 29, 2021