Dos Estaciones
The Cinema Guild | Release Date: September 9, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisSep 8, 2022
At once specific and expansive, Dos Estaciones can be described several ways: as a drama, a character study, a meditative exploration of the ravages of globalization. At the same time, part of the movie’s pleasure is how it avoids facile categorization. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenSep 1, 2022
At once a vivid portrait of a place and its people, an unsentimental ode to the art and craft of tequila-making, a damning depiction of the results of globalizing economic policies, and an exquisite character study, with Teresa Sánchez delivering a performance of potent restraint. Read full review
90
Screen DailyJonathan RomneySep 1, 2022
Given that it’s about a tequila factory, Mexican drama Dos Estaciones is as sobering as they come – but it’s also a bracingly potent distillation of drama, psychological portraiture and passionate flouting of clichés, both national and sexual. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmSep 9, 2022
Indeed, González has the keen eye of a documentarian that can perceive the very details that normally escape one’s gaze. His film demonstrates just how much we can glean by slowing down to savor the sights around us and those who inhabit them. To take the time to look at the world through the eyes of others rather than be limited by our own perspective. Read full review
85
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganSep 9, 2022
Having grown up in Atotonilco El Alto, Jalisco, across the street from a tequila factory owned by his grandfather, González imbues the film with intimate touches gleaned by a native to the state and its most lucrative industry—blending his sparse yet stirring narrative with the observational eye typical of his previous documentary work. Read full review
83
IndieWireCarlos AguilarSep 1, 2022
González’s fiction is so indelibly tied to the reality of the place and its inebriating spirit that certain segments of the film (particularly those focused on the painstaking work of making tequila) give the impression of watching an observational documentary. Read full review
75
TheWrapRobert AbeleSep 1, 2022
In a sense, Dos Estaciones creates its own gripping shot-chaser cycle of moods, the accumulative effect of landscape beauty, grim news, observed process (the machinery of making tequila), and abiding solemnity from Sánchez’s commanding turn, giving us plenty to digest when the incident-heavy final stretch occurs. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleJenny NulfOct 6, 2022
For years it feels like the upcoming tequila shortage has been whispered about. But with so many celebrities announcing their own tequila brands, sometimes it’s hard to grasp the dire situation many tequila plants are facing. Juan Pablo González’s film Dos Estaciones centers around this very real crisis, a subtle reflection on the political and environmental pressures Mexican-owned tequila factories are facing. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassSep 8, 2022
For all its lush cinematography, capturing regional custom and dramatic panoramas alike, this is a film about repression, an inhibition that no amount of tequila can take away. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 1, 2022
It’s the detail, the sense of small lives closed off and growing more isolated that makes this film worth watching. Read full review
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