Fresh
This isn't a movie about a situation; it's a movie about a fully formed, red-blooded character dealing with a situation while also dealing with everything else.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Overview
Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
Director and cast
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97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
In an era when movies about and for older viewers tend to be insipid comedies, this is a welcome change of pace.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
This is a film more about the sacredness of our memories than the evil ways of gentrification, but skilled director Kleber Mendonca Filho is clearly interested in both.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
Despite Sonia Braga's fierce performance as a woman of unbreakable determination and proud refinement, this drama by the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho quickly lapses into sentimental attitudinizing.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh
"Aquarius" makes a compelling case for looking up from our ubiquitous distractions to take in the world around us - the one that we live in and, whether we're aware of it or not, lives in us.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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