92
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergWith breathtaking elegance and stunning assurance, Ramón Salazar takes a melodramatic chestnut and makes it flower with unexpected emotion in Sunday’s Illness.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterJonathan HollandThe Hollywood ReporterJonathan HollandThis story about the reunion, following a 35-year abandonment, of a mother and daughter, marvelously played by Spanish actors Susi Sanchez and Barbara Lennie, respectively, is slow but never ponderous, clear in its outlines but never simplistic, and elegantly crafted without being stifling.
- 90The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThe often-tense mother-daughter dance of recrimination and forgiveness is spectacularly acted.
- 70Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSalazar’s deliberateness of image and tone can sometimes feel like its own archly overemphasized meaning, but it’s never less than an artfully sincere companion to the drama of missing years and reconsidered choices that fortifies Sunday’s Illness.