Puiu's film is darkly hilarious as we note not only just how many lies are told and why but how easy it is to accept them.

| Original Score: A- | May 2, 2019

I exulted with a generous number of disconcerting and delightful episodes where Puiu, employing his directorial competence to better capture the family's moves with sharpness and wittiness, attempts to satirize life in today's unstable Romania.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 13, 2018

The type of film for which the qualifier "Masterpiece" was invented. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 14, 2017

With little hierarchal order to the proceedings--but with distinct delineations between national, political, and theological dispositions--the film manages to hold everyone accountable.

| Nov 10, 2017

It keeps the spectator in a state of multiple alertness, irritates, undermines, overwhelms, fascinates and delusions directly and indirectly thanks to its impeccable edition. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 20, 2017

Nonsensically titled, formally accomplished and richly engrossing ...

| Sep 1, 2017

A lucid and acid diagnosis of a society that has made hostility its daily life (according to what we can infer because of its cinema). [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 25, 2017

Sieranevada demands a lot of the spectator, but the film gives back moments full of lucidity and powerful and transcendent cinematic narration. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 25, 2017

The story goes on without being exhausted, showing the relationships of a dysfunctional family with absurd moments in which the emotions are expressed with strange intimacy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2017

An exercise in cinema so precise, ambitious and, if you will, torn. And tragically comic. Maybe monumental. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 16, 2017

An electrifying family reunion that becomes evil and bilious dance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 16, 2017

A work that faces the viewer with the most stimulating and stark specificity of cinema as a language. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 16, 2017

I have already read that this extraordinary film marks a before and after in the language film. I am convinced of this, it's impossible to make it worse. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 16, 2017

The dominant tone of the film is a dark comedy plagued by absurd situations and rituals, sometimes in the manner of an Italian comedy of the 1960s. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 16, 2017

This dramatic comedy that takes place in an apartment is another example of the good moment Romanian cinema is going through. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 20, 2017

The hyper-realistic performances and strong screenplay make the punishing runtime, designed to make you feel the exhaustion of family gatherings, worth pushing through.

| Jul 20, 2017

The film's 176-minute length will tax patience, but that almost seems the point in a story about how truth is arrived at and/or denied.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2017

That's the other thing about Puiu's brand of realism: it effaces the virtuosity required to pull it off. The very mode downplays the feat.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2017

It is a bit of a slog, clocking in at almost three hours, but those of us with quarrelsome kin will find much to relate to.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 12, 2017

Sieranevada pulses with humour, insight and momentum and is one of the most beautifully wrought films of the past year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 11, 2017