It is a beautiful, endearing, and charming story about male friendship over time narrated with elegance and sensitivity although with a somewhat excessive running time. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 6, 2024

The film immerses us in the majesty of the Alps and confronts us with the complexity of the world we inhabit and the ties that unite us. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 6, 2024

I’ll be seeing these mountainscapes when I close my eyes for a long time to come. And ... I’m grateful to have another substantial entry in that neglected genre of films about male friendships.

| Original Score: B | Apr 29, 2024

They’re in Italy, drinking wine, making cheese, ruggedly doing masonry work…I”m in!

| Apr 24, 2024

The story does not climb to any great heights, but at least does not fall off the mountain.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 12, 2024

The Eight Mountains is the kind of observant, borderline spiritual film that may inspire its viewers to lead lives with greater purpose.

| Dec 22, 2023

The Eight Mountains offers all sorts of ecstatically beautiful footage of the Italian Alps, but it also spins out a delicate, rueful story about trying to find a balance between nature and work...

| Dec 9, 2023

a film that extends the concepts of mountains into symbolic spaces: they double as things in life that are large and looming, but cannot necessarily be returned to

| Dec 1, 2023

While not a lot of note happens throughout the movie, a powerful spirit of friendship, an unspoken need for healing, and all that spellbinding scenery blend together into a satisfying whole.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2023

Moving as slowly as a glacial melt, this soulful slant on individual destiny plays out primarily in the unspoken.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2023

The eventual fate of Bruno and Pietro represents how delicate friendships are, and how time molds them into ancient stalagmites by breaking off pieces of our hearts we never get back.

| Nov 21, 2023

This is a gentle tale of a decades-spanning friendship that seems a little out of its depth in such a heavyweight showcase. With terrific cinematography and two engaging leads, it’s easy on the eye, but it’s lackluster in its telling.

| Oct 25, 2023

It's a bittersweet drama centring on two men who meet as children... It's about the innocence of youth giving way to the disappointments of adulthood, about the impact of overbearing fathers, about the struggle to find your own place in the world.

| Sep 21, 2023

THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS is extremely methodical, meditative and often concerned with the quiet moments these characters share.

| Original Score: A | Sep 13, 2023

It’s a film that says that alone or together, at home or abroad, everyone has to find themselves at their own pace. It’s your best friends who will wait for you to catch up if they have to.

| Sep 10, 2023

A romantic and sad but, at the same time, lovely tale about friendship. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2023

This film about a lifelong friendship gives its audience, particularly men, permission to be vulnerable with each other. Gripping cinematography and a perfectly matched score/soundtrack round out one of the most impactful international films of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2023

The Eight Mountains is both epic and simple in how it tells a very insular story of two close male friends from childhood to adulthood. The small number of people in the movie's cast gives this drama enough room for meaningful character development.

| Aug 23, 2023

Felix van Groenigen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains is an epic story of a friendship between two unlikely boys over decades and across continents...The Eight Mountains is a sensitive depiction of male friendship.

| Jul 31, 2023

An emotive film about life's strenuous mountains that we have to climb, and the people who will accompany us unconditionally through those rough journeys. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 9, 2023