metacritic.com: Alma

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

47 / 100

70	TV Guide Enthralling, darkly funny, horrifying and hopeful.
70	Village Voice As fragmented and unresolved as the experiences of mother and daughter, Alma bears witness to a situation for which there are no easy answers.
50	Austin Chronicle Jerry Johnson It's an exploration by the audience, the filmmakers, and the subjects themselves of a kind you've never quite seen in a documentary before.
50	New York Post The documentary equivalent of a Southern Gothic novel.
50	Chicago Reader In the manner of a southern gothic, they never fail to fascinate.
20	The New York Times Begins to seem not so much an examination but an exploitation.