Roma (2018)

"Roma is no mere movie — it’s a vision, a memory play that unfolds with a gritty and virtuosic time-machine austerity."

"So full of dazzlingly intricate visual poetry, so teeming with sensory spirit, that trying to review it is a bit like trying to review all of life. Which may sound a bit grandiose, but Cuarón's magnum opus provokes such turgid sentiment."

"A richly textured masterpiece, Roma is cinema at its purest and most human."

"Too often Roma feels dramatically insipid (the family is actually profoundly boring) and unsure of what it's trying to say about Cleo's life and her status - if it's saying anything at all."

"Every individual scene feels filled with the lucid detail of a formative recollection or a recurring dream."

"In its engagingly episodic way, it is also at times like a soap opera or telenovela. And at other times it feels resoundingly like an epic."

"The term "masterpiece" gets chucked around far too loosely, and I mostly try to avoid it. But once in a lucky blue moon, there really are no other words to do a film justice."

"It’s absolutely fresh, confident, surprising and rapturously beautiful. Read full review"