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90Alternately heart-wrenching, dismaying, raw and even funny, Solas is ultimately a wonderfully warm and embracing experience.
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90Galiana's quietly monumental performance is one for the ages.
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88A beautifully acted and deeply compassionate study of ordinary people coping with the vicissitudes of life.
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88A simple story that resonates deeply, largely thanks to the actors' ability to invest it with inner life.
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88Unsparing and uplifting - a wickedly difficult combination to pull off, but one that gives the film an emotional weight that's impossible to dismiss.
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80As a tactfully quiet story of mother-daughter estrangement and psychic rescue, Solas can hardly fail to excite the longing so many of us have to right domestic wrongs.
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80The fierce rigor of María Galiana's performance keeps this film from ever falling into sentimentality.
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75Splendidly acted, sensitively directed.
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75Digs deep into the roots of female fortitude.
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75An extraordinary and heartfelt film.
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75Zambrano shows an impressive sensitivity toward his actors and their characters and never allows hopelessness to quash hope in this lovely film.
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70Despite a melodramatic score that at times seems almost facetious, the movie's tone is sober and sincere, its unlikely ending persuasive.
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67After all of its sadness, a tender redemptive glow.
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63A lovely, intelligent film from Spain about recognizable human beings with real-life problems.
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60The acting is superb.
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50Fernandez is excellent as the maladjusted daughter, but the film's heart and soul is embodied in Galina's noble, understated performance.
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