The film ends on a note of human vulnerability I’ve simply never seen from Hopkins before and it absolutely destroyed me.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 23, 2024

It is a very physical performance: unflinching, dazzling and one so mesmerisingly upsetting that I never want to watch it again.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 10, 2024

A psychological drama that has the originality of narrating the action from the point of view of an older man, through which the viewer must discover if he suffers from some type of senile dementia, or if it is his environment who wants harm him.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 16, 2024

Trigger warning: do not watch “The Father” (2020) if you are unprepared to be completely gutted and devastated. Side effects may include life altering change in perspective and emerging fear of aging in the US.

| Jun 3, 2024

The Father is a film that punches you straight in the gut. You’ll never be able to forget this one.

| Apr 23, 2024

Anthony Hopkins’ Oscar-winning act leaves you with a heavy heart.

| Jan 10, 2024

The great Anthony Hopkins plays Anthony, an eighty-something-year-old man who’s constantly at war with his own cognition.

| Jul 25, 2023

Through our protagonist’s mental condition, we witness how human consciousness turns against us. That an ill mind can make a cruel and grotesque joke about our very existence, setting up a punch line that will tear down the world we thought we lived in.

| Jul 25, 2023

The Father is an overwhelmingly devastating depiction of the painfully progressive disease that is dementia. Anthony Hopkins delivers an award-worthy, powerfully compelling performance. One of the best movies I've seen in the last couple of years.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 24, 2023

The Father has, like his [protagonist's] mind, an elliptical structure, made of holes and voids. Allowing us to get lost and confounded in its thrilleresque atmosphere... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 3, 2023

An act of empathic genius.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 9, 2022

“The Father” is a tough watch. But the bold choices, the emotional honesty, the crisp detailed storytelling, and the tour de force performance from Anthony Hopkins (among other things) make every second worthwhile.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

The script ensnares us into the life of this man, though the audiovisual elements could've been more inspired. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 11, 2022

It is not just a film that you watch, it is a film that you experience - mind, body, and soul.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 13, 2022

Capped by one of the most harrowing speeches youll see all year, The Father belongs in that special category of films that are brilliant but may require a bit of a break before you see them again

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 2, 2022

It's an incredibly accomplished, well-structured chamber drama, aided in its translation to English by playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Not only is the film absolutely affecting, but the sheer confidence that it carries would be impressive for any film much less a directorial debut.

| Feb 12, 2022

The film does what Christopher Nolan keeps trying and failing at, which is to ever so gingerly reach into our minds and tweak out the corners and meaty pieces of our perceptions, before we even notice what's being done

| Jan 14, 2022

Extraordinary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2021

Director Florian Zeller makes light work of this adaption of his play, using the camera to recreate the claustrophobia and uncertainty of relying on an uncertain mind.

| Nov 6, 2021