While Sister isnt without its issues, this drama remains something special, the films final moments an avalanche of genuine human understanding that had me happily reaching for the tissues while also letting out a silent euphoric cheer of appreciation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2022

Meier's bleak second feature proves she is indeed a director of significant talent.

| Aug 5, 2019

Sister is a heartbreaking movie whose deft touches of humor only make the story more bittersweet.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 20, 2018

The performances, both from Klein and Seydoux are nothing short of exceptional. Each in their own noteworthy ways manage to navigate the concentrated fashion of the screenplay in tremendous, deeply praiseworthy manner.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2018

Agnes Godard's lovely cinematography captures the look and feel of a Swiss winter, as well as the subtle changes over the course of a season.... [Director Urusla] Meier's direction is self-consciously beautiful.

| Feb 22, 2018

Aside from the strong performances, there's beautiful, saddening cinematography, too.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2017

It's a Dardennes-like move that Meier makes here, plunking us down, without judgment, in the middle of a low life. Just 13 here, Klein, who debuted in Meier's Home at 10 as the son Julien (a name he uses here as an alias) is remarkable.

| Jan 9, 2016

The pair [Klein & Seydoux] artfully weaves the ties that bind, crafting something that is both fragile and tenuously hopeful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2013

Strong, pungent, snow-laden contemporary Swiss drama...Director Ursula Meier fills the film with unspoken desperation that is almost tear-inducing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2013

Scorn may give way to momentary solicitude, but Sister is by no means a tenderhearted morality tale.

| Nov 5, 2013

One of those films that quietly gets under your skin - in the best possible way. It's a film about character and relationships. And its unpredictability is what adds the dramatic tension

| Oct 26, 2013

The content gets grittier and grittier as the film progresses and some may be disappointed by the ending, which leaves us hanging - as if on a mountain ledge. But maybe that is the point. Performances are brilliant, though

| Oct 26, 2013

A simple but emotionally laden slice-of-life drama that is at turns heartbreaking and hopeful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2013

Slow-moving to the point of being glacial, Meier's icy endeavour is just barely rewarding enough to warrant the effort required to sit through it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 20, 2013

What a beautiful and desperate film.

| Original Score: A | Jan 18, 2013

Director Ursula Meier conjures a convincing sense of place.

| Original Score: B | Jan 17, 2013

[An] absorbing French drama.

| Jan 10, 2013

For fans of Ursula Meier's last movie, the strikingly offbeat domestic drama Home, this act of auteur-on-auteur emulation may feel like a comedown. Yet it's still stirring work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2013

Strong cinematography, excellent performances, and a deft touch with how adulthood can be forced upon what should be carefree adolescence make it emotionally memorable without ever feeling manipulative.

| Original Score: 4.0/5.0 | Jan 3, 2013

A low-key, affecting story of dreams at odds with reality and crime sprung from necessity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 3, 2013