A wonderful film, a truly touching love story that captures growing up in all of its messy, awkward, sometimes painful beauty.

| Jun 6, 2022

The Way He Looks is a poignant coming-of-age movie with an incredibly sweet romance at its core.

| Jul 14, 2020

This exquisite film - about a blind teenager who falls in love with a classmate - will charm you from beginning to end.

| Jun 30, 2020

This may be the first feature to trace with humor and compassion how hard it is to be gay, blind and in love...

| Jun 18, 2020

Daniel Ribeiro achieves in his debut a natural, sensitive, refreshing film full of overflowing emotions without falling into sentimentality or exaggeration. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 23, 2020

"The trio of friends are getting closer and/or away from each other and the relationships between them are becoming more complex".

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 18, 2019

The Way He Looks is tight, well balanced and good humored. It depicts the subtle pain of rejection, conflict and jealousy without being disproportionately melodramatic.

| Jun 20, 2017

The film offers something much deeper, and what is not said makes it refreshing, and beautiful.

| Apr 14, 2017

...the execution is heartfelt and the actors charming.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 7, 2016

There are a lot of 'coming of age' movies and a lot of romantic comedies, but very few good ones. This is one of those rare good ones. It isn't a great film, but it is certainly a good one.

| Original Score: B | Feb 5, 2015

Brazilian writer-director Daniel Ribeiro displays an assured sense of tone in this debut feature, sustaining an air of fragile beauty but never once slipping into preciousness.

| Jan 9, 2015

Daniel Ribeiro's slightly corny, proficiently visualized coming-of-age tale floats on the strains of B&S' music as he imagines a triangle between a blind boy, his best female friend and the new boy in school.

| Dec 31, 2014

Writer Daniel Ribeiro shows a talent in creating a believable YA story that is not conventional in style, content and tone and directs his young cast with a deft hand.

| Original Score: B | Dec 19, 2014

Ribeiro lacks a sense of dramatic construction, with the narrative stumbling about thoughtlessly, retracing the same ground over and over.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 18, 2014

A charming teen drama bursting with a warmth and compassion unexpected in the genre, and with a freshly sweet surprise of young love.

| Dec 3, 2014

There aren't any surprises in "The Way He Looks," but this warm, finely acted Brazilian drama still ranks among the more resonant and satisfying teen-centered tales in recent memory.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 25, 2014

Brazilian gay coming-of-age tale, almost quaint in its old-fashioned sweetness and gentle dramatics.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2014

The film takes pleasure in the simplest moments. And sometimes that's all you can ask for.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 14, 2014

A warm, smart and thoroughly delightful coming-of-age story.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 13, 2014

"Admirable throughout is the balance that Ribeiro strikes between dewy eroticism and the contextualization of sexuality as just a single aspect of one's identity, albeit an essential one."

| Original Score: 75% | Nov 7, 2014