Blanquita
Outsider Pictures | Release Date: December 9, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Film ThreatSumner ForbesDec 23, 2022
Guzzoni, at times, drowns the film in its messaging by not mixing it up, but we’re never bored. We can thank López’ performance for that and our creeping sense of alarm at the abuses that the less fortunate are forced to suffer through. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarDec 9, 2022
Guzzoni’s directorial hand chooses to move with restraint where others would exploit the despair on display for melodramatic manipulation. His focus is on the moral grays. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 9, 2022
As we hear details of the sorts of things about which there is no doubt, the perversion, cruelty and impunity of the well-connected accused, it’s easy to dig in one’s heels like Blanquita herself, hoping for the best, hoping that something resembling justice will come out of this version of “the truth,” no matter how twisted it might be. Read full review
80
Screen DailyWendy IdeDec 9, 2022
Guzzoni crafts a suitably glowering and hostile atmosphere for this story, which delves into the very murkiest corners of Chilean society. Read full review
80
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaDec 9, 2022
Unfolding like a David Fincheresque procedural and doused in gloomy grays and blues, the film, by the writer and director Fernando Guzzoni, may seem provocative to some in the context of #MeToo and its popular mantra to “believe women.” Read full review
93
TheWrapRonda Racha PenriceDec 9, 2022
The ugly truth is that society has routinely failed to protect poor women and children, and it’s still failing. Guzzoni uses all his talent to amplify this sad reality and, in turn, solidifies his position as a leader of the New Wave of Latin cinema Read full review
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