Roma

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Roma is by far the most experimental storytelling in a career filled with audacious (and frequently excessive) gimmicks. Here, he tables the showiness of “Children of Men” and “Gravity” in favor of ongoing restraint, creating a fresh kind of intimacy. Like a grand showman working overtime to tone things down, he lures viewers into an apparently straightforward scene, only to catch them off guard with new information.”

  Eric Kohn, IndieWire · 100

• “Every individual scene feels filled with the lucid detail of a formative recollection or a recurring dream.”

  Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100

• “Roma may not be the memoir film many might have expected from such an adventurous, sometimes raunchy, sci-fi/fantasy-oriented filmmaker, but it’s absolutely fresh, confident, surprising and rapturously beautiful.”

  Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter · 100

• “At times it feels novelistic, a densely realised, intimate drama giving us access to domestic lives developing in what feels like real time. In its engagingly episodic way, it is also at times like a soap opera or telenovela. And at other times it feels resoundingly like an epic.”

  Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100

• “This glorious, tender picture, a memoir written in film language, is only indirectly about the man who made it. He stands off to the side, in the shadows, beckoning us toward something. Roma is filmmaking as gesture, an invitation to generosity that we perhaps didn’t know we could feel.”

  Stephanie Zacharek, Time · 100