A soft plea for human decency and healing, bound together by past mistakes literally haunting these characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2024

The almost aimless plotting of events contributes to scenes that either lack in resonance or fade away into relative obscurity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2024

At the center of the story, both Mia Maestro and Leonor Varela give heart-breaking and contrasting performances.

| Dec 9, 2023

In spite of its missteps, The Cow Who Sang is an assured first feature that gently weaves an intimate, personal story about motherhood, family, trauma and loss into a wider fable about environmental ruin...

| Dec 9, 2023

A riveting tale of family drama and environment that provides a hopeful and thoughtful ending.

| Sep 8, 2023

Hope lingers that it’s not too late for Magdalena’s family to wake up to the world around them, and maybe it’s possible for us to do the same.

| Sep 5, 2023

A moo-ving meditation on the many ugly heads of entitlement and exploitation.

| Aug 25, 2023

There are moments of eerie movie magic here as well as a pervasive didacticism and at least one scene that’s lit like a telenovela. Alegria is one to watch, though, and so is the movie if you’re feeling chancy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 4, 2023

By turns beautiful, haunting and inscrutable.

| Jul 31, 2023

Perhaps the best quality of The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future is that it instills a sense of hope in the viewer.

| Jul 24, 2023

Every genuinely compelling moment is forced to become an object of one-dimensional dogma.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Jun 22, 2023

The joy of the film is in its narrative flow.

| Jun 14, 2023

The beauty of the story lies precisely in how to overcome fragility, doing it with both realistic and supernatural quests that will take you out of your comfort zone.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 2, 2023

The Cow Who Sang a Song into the World creates a deeply affecting mood, as the song of the earth slips into your ears and into your bloodstream, an eco-thriller that asks us to listen to the earth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2023

With finely tuned magical realist sensibilities, first-time writer-director Francisca Alegria launches into a hauntingly atmospheric tale that denounces humanity’s untenable relationship with the natural world.

| May 25, 2023

Whether this is a ghost story, a zombie story or something more abstract is beside the point.

| May 24, 2023

In the presence of these limiting factors, however, The Cow Who Sang ultimately resolves as a less curious film than most of its runtime suggests.

| May 20, 2023

"The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future” might be too slow of a slow burn—and there’s not much to [its] characters beyond a few barely sketched traits.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 19, 2023

Ambitious if unfocused, this transfixing Chilean eco-fable infuses magical realism into a haunting story of grief and fractured family dynamics.

| May 19, 2023

The images, the score, and the performances are so alluring that it's impossible to look away from them. Given its uniqueness, it's also impossible to forget.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 19, 2023