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What top critics say:
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: This has plenty to say about class relations too, but what’s most impressive about it is how the Mexican writer-director-cinematographer-editor transforms even his political observations into the stuff of big-screen spectacle. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: For all its worthy intentions, “Roma” is little more than the righteous affirmation of good intentions. Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: Roma captures, as well as any film I have seen, the spirit of “magical realism,” without ever hinting at the supernatural. Its magic is pure, stunning cinematic technique. Read more
Michael Phillips, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Alfonso Cuaron’s new film, “Roma,” gives you so much to see in each new vignette, in every individual composition, in fact, that a second viewing becomes a pleasurable necessity rather than a filmgoing luxury. Read more