... A moving, shocking, and visceral film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 2, 2024

This isn't a narrative of a larger-than-life hero swooping in to save the day; rather, it's a testament to the combined efforts of ordinary individuals, bound by humanity, who become heroes in the crucible of disaster.

| Dec 11, 2023

What one single movie can do is give at least one true story profound respect and realism. Most importantly, what the beauty of any movie can do is remind us all of the hope and survival that rises from the depths of tragedy and loss.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2023

With the help of Maria Belon herself, Sergio G Sanchez's taut and tear-stained script never overplays its hand when it comes to sentimentality and cleverly keeps the audience in the dark (sometimes literally) for as long as possible...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 18, 2023

A punishing experience, with hardly a moment after the first twenty minutes where a lump isn’t in your throat or tears welling up in your eyes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 20, 2022

It tells an intensely affecting story and allows our senses to take it all in and react in our own way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It starts not with clever attempts at drawing emotions from the audience, but rather with blunt, staggering visuals to demand pity and sympathy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 1, 2020

In most years, Naomi Watts would be a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination with a performance that is absolutely mesmerizing and emotionally devastating.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

'The Impossible' is a magnificent survival drama. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 25, 2020

Dramatic and unwavering, The Impossible will make you believe that anything is possible.

| Nov 27, 2019

The purpose of Bayona's film is "dubious."

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 19, 2019

Sometimes it's sentimental to a fault, but the thrilling and innovative filmmaking that's being done makes it all worth it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 7, 2019

The Impossible may be schmaltz, but it's damn good schmaltz. It's the kind of story that is so incredible, so impossible, that it can only be true.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2019

[The Impossible] shows us devastation, yes, unbelievable havoc, yes, horrific human loss, yes. But also, exemplary courage and love and compassion, all done with freshness and feeling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2019

The wrath of nature is re-created so masterfully by filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona that it feels like a documentary.

| Jan 26, 2019

It might seem a noble project, aiming to show the rest of the world what hell some endured. But even a dramatic film can only suggest part of the experience. And I fear The Impossible might serve only to trivialize that experience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 18, 2018

Compelling and oozing with conflict and complexity, The Impossible is a heartfelt horror show worth its weight in reflective, ghoulish gold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 18, 2018

It's all superbly acted, with Watts especially delivering a powerful performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2018

Bayona's staging of the tsunami without (seemingly without) digital effects is relentless, convincing, terrifying, non-stupid, and without Hollywood wonder.

| Apr 30, 2018

... Watts manages to transmit all the pain she suffers and what goes through the head of the protagonist... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 23, 2018