There are no surprises and Monteverde’s script is stuffed with platitudes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2024

It’s directed remarkably and delicately, it’s acted powerfully, and it tells a story that’s simple but very easy to get invested in. But when you hold it up to factual scrutiny, the waters become grayer.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 21, 2024

Overall, Sound of Freedom is politically charged - it’s trying to shed light on a very real world-wide issue but due to lack of character development, bad acting and long run time it might fail to entertain and engage you as a viewer.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 22, 2024

And yet, for a film about a man engaging in precarious subterfuge among deep-jungle guerilla traffickers, it’s weirdly boring, its tension and intensity diluted by cornball overtures... and Caviezel’s long, slow, brooding stares.

| Nov 3, 2023

Monteverde's visual elegance is undermined by a script full of unnecessary clarifications, and underlinings. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2023

It is a good, compelling story, but is it true? After a lot of fact-checking, I found out much of the story is not true, and the hero is significantly different in reality than the way he is depicted in the movie. The stink of QAnon pervades this movie.

| Original Score: B | Oct 16, 2023

Alejandro Monteverde directs a film with a solid narrative and elegant staging. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 11, 2023

"Sound of Freedom" is a thought-provoking and emotionally charged film that is both socially relevant and artistically impressive.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Oct 8, 2023

As it turns out, Sound of Freedom is all bark, but it has no bite. Despite raising awareness on a difficult, but important subject matter, Sound of Freedom becomes a victim of its own lack of ambition.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2023

... if we're honest, the movie is particularly mediocre or perhaps even bad, or very bad, depending on your mood (and beliefs). [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 25, 2023

If this flick wasn’t being used as a battleground in the Great Culture War this week, I’d forget I ever saw it within six months.

| Sep 21, 2023

Sound of Freedom's over dramatic approach and conservative vibe when it comes to dealing with such a tough subject matter keep it from being taken as more than a flimsy based on true events search and rescue story.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 19, 2023

A deeply unappealing mixture of the sleazy and the self-righteous, the film isn’t exploitative in the generic shoot-’em-up manner of a Liam Neeson vigilante pic — it’s too pious for action.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 8, 2023

It’s refreshingly unaffected. The storytelling is routine. It warrants neither its hard-core disciples nor its worst enemies. Ignore the dishonest huffing and puffing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2023

By being so focused on the Message, they leave out any other aspect that might have served the film. The irony of all this is that if they had made a good movie, their precious Message would have been transmitted better. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 6, 2023

A thunderously crass and manipulative movie that is hampered by erratic pacing, pantomime bad guys and an overfondness for shots of Caviezel weeping God-fearing, manly tears.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 3, 2023

Jim Caviezel is a one-man scourge of child predators in this well-meaning thriller that doesn’t entirely deserve to be written off as culture-war propaganda.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2023

It’s bizarre, unsettling and yet – in the filmmaking equivalent of turning wine to water – bracingly dull to boot.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 1, 2023

Ballard is the infallible risen Christ who can never do wrong. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2023

The call-for-action message is definitively more important than the final result. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2023