Critic Reviews
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Los Angeles Times
Alternately heart-wrenching, dismaying, raw and even funny, Solas is ultimately a wonderfully warm and embracing experience.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Galiana's quietly monumental performance is one for the ages.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
A beautifully acted and deeply compassionate study of ordinary people coping with the vicissitudes of life.
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| 88 |
Baltimore Sun
Unsparing 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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| 88 |
New York Daily News
A simple story that resonates deeply, largely thanks to the actors' ability to invest it with inner life.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
As 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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| 80 |
Village Voice
The fierce rigor of María Galiana's performance keeps this film from ever falling into sentimentality.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Splendidly acted, sensitively directed.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Zambrano 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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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
Digs deep into the roots of female fortitude.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
An extraordinary and heartfelt film.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Despite 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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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
After all of its sadness, a tender redemptive glow.
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| 63 |
New York Post
A lovely, intelligent film from Spain about recognizable human beings with real-life problems.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
The acting is superb.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Fernandez 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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