...[Vermiglio is] an austere film, never ostentatious in its beauty and never forced in its sensitivity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2025

This is quintessential arthouse cinema where the slow, deliberate pace might not appeal to everyone. I find the subtlety captivating, and Vermiglio is brimming with disquieting mystery.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 14, 2025

Mikhail Krichman, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s regular cinematographer, finds gorgeous snowy tableaux among the vertiginous heights. The mostly amateur cast are impressive, with Martina Scrinzi a heartbreaking standout.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 28, 2025

With Vermiglio, Delpero has solidified her bold voice as a writer, a creator and filmmaker. She once again presents a story that’s thoughtful, beautifully executed and at its very core celebrates the sheer resilience of women and mothers.

| Feb 28, 2025

Her [Maura Delpero] meticulous gaze channels echoes of Anton Chekhov and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, prompting reflection on life’s quiet sorrows and joys.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2025

The rhythms are stately and momentous, with Mikhail Krichman’s photography and the director’s exquisite framing reminding us of the medium’s extraordinary capacity for beauty.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 26, 2025

Despite its nostalgia, serene visuals, and recollected details, it’s a quietly devastating experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 20, 2025

...beneath the surface there remains only a weak hint of what could have been a better film if, instead of simply focusing on showing, it should have taken a side in the plot. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2025

Beautiful and powerful, Vermiglio, which premiered at the last Venice Film Festival, is the latest offering that middles between the contemplative and the racial. [Full review in Spnaish]

| Feb 14, 2025

The most beautiful thing about 'Vermiglio' is that this discourse on the difficulties of women to be free on their own terms is always organic, and runs through clear, austere, harmonious images.

| Feb 14, 2025

The world is changing, but in this untamed scenario with little hope, the main thing is to feed the children and think about the future of those who are discovering life. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2025

A precise and profound portrait of many things: motherhood, family, doubts, desire, machismo and escape. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2025

It is so quiet and simple. Almost no one talks in this movie, but the story is right there.

| Feb 11, 2025

Secrets start ballooning and it really becomes something quite beautiful.

| Feb 11, 2025

By drawing the viewer in by degrees, Delpero effectively immerses them in a time and place, rendered with detail and care, that would otherwise remain remote.

| Feb 7, 2025

Delpero’s dense, meticulous accumulation of intimate detail makes us feel that we’re really inhabiting this small universe, with all its harshness and its comforts, as much at home in it as the family.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 4, 2025

All of Delpero's actors are convincing, and cinematographer Mikhail Krichman often captures the allure and stillness of a master painting in what looks, plays, and feels like a genuine arthouse film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2025

VERMIGLIO is a beautiful neorealist throwback that shows the power of detailed, naturalistic characterisation.

| Jan 28, 2025

The authenticity draws one in, and while the story is more of a restrained drama than an emotional powerhouse, it feels accurate – especially in revealing generational secrets that alter individual paths.

| Original Score: B | Jan 24, 2025

Vermiglio is exquisite. There’s a rough, earthy tenderness to the picture and a kinship with other recent examples of Italian folk cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 21, 2025