"To film as intimately as Corral does takes a fair degree of collaboration — his lyrical, handheld, monochrome cinematography shows off his background as a photographer, as well as his training in lieu of film school."

"The black and white photography is stark and sobering — it is in the score and sound design that Corral captures the sensory assault of life on the street."

"Slim, sensitive and soulful — a raw yet deeply compassionate portrait of people living on the edge."

"Mesmerizing. A quietly intoxicating and existentially real war movie — the aesthetic brings to mind Terence Malick's The New World and Iñárritu's The Revenant, Lubezki's lensing combined historical realism with an enhanced naturalistic style."

"A welcome addition to an oeuvre consistently attuned to the way Americans think about faith, class and community."

"Corral plays with silhouettes against bonfires and finds the poetry of treacherous conditions — fluffy snowflakes balancing delicately on a soldier's nest-like beard."

"Far from the folkloric imagery of the gauchos, Alexis Franco confronts the harshness and fragility of a condition — a western in the age of the Anthropocene."

"A raw and genuine film about an intergenerational family — a testament to the strength and resilience of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges."