Its bucolic coming-of-age portrait examines adolescence, maturity and female liberties around puerile situations and is populated, for the most part, by a cast of bland characters who lack nuance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 9, 2022

A coming-of-age and slice-of-life drama set in Chile.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 6, 2020

Visually, Castillo's hazy, nostalgic look back at this key period in the country's recent history is akin to watching events as seen through a series of washed out Polaroid pictures.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 6, 2020

Dominga Sotomayor returns to the nostalgia of childhood and finds space, even, for reverie and convention. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2019

I love this perfectly lovely little movie.

| Oct 1, 2019

A tender portrait of children deserting their fidelity to the optimism in which they can no longer believe.

| Sep 26, 2019

Watching Too Late to Die Young felt like being carried by a gentle stream. It has a dreamlike, even-keeled quality one doesn't find in many Hollywood movies.

| Sep 11, 2019

We observe, invited to share if we can escape our conventional world for theirs.

| Aug 29, 2019

The stillness of the camera allows the viewer to experience these peoples' surroundings, a peacefulness that welcomes you in and makes you want to stay ... for a while, at least.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Focusing on giving a sincere portrayal of adolescence, Too Late To Die Young professes a turbulent intimacy with controlled pace and assured narrative construction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2019

Much like life itself, it is a meandering, seemingly directionless tale but no less enrapturing for it; moments of breathtaking beauty are woven in with the mundane everyday to create a vibrant tapestry of life on the cusp of great change.

| Jul 11, 2019

Too Late weaves its own spell, one that will resonate with many people who were once young and are starting to forget what that was all about.

| Jul 10, 2019

It's because of this exhaustive development of nostalgia... that you can forgive the script that at times resorts to broad strokes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2019

The director Dominga Sotomayor works the plot always with discretion and malice. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 1, 2019

Too Late to Die Young's strengths lie in the expansiveness of both its portraiture and its mise en scène: while Hernández gives a moving, nuanced performance, Sofia's emotional turmoil is more affecting for being placed against those around her

| Jun 17, 2019

It's a film that plays like a dream remembered, floating in and out of lives and conversations, having both a warmth and, come the final act, a shattering sense of reality that leaves the viewer utterly shellshocked.

| Jun 10, 2019

For better and worse (mostly better), Too Late To Die Young is a mood movie, situated on an emotional precipice.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 10, 2019

"Too Late to Die Young" almost has a timeless quality to it, a period unencumbered by outdated tech and dusty cultural references. But this dreamy world would not exist without the outside forces that go unmentioned.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2019

[Hernández] gives a brave and vulnerable performance, capturing the raw hunger that Sofia feels for life and love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2019

"Too Late to Die Young" doesn't pretend to show us everything, which makes it all the more remarkable just how much it sees.

| Jun 6, 2019