Fire Will Come
Kimstim Films | Release Date (Streaming): October 30, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarNov 5, 2020
Fire Will Come is a pithy and devastating masterstroke from an auteur astute in his calibration of subdued emotional impact. Its discourse on forgiveness simmers in one’s mind inextinguishably. Read full review
100
CineVueChristopher MachellMar 26, 2020
Fire Will Come is of an enigmatic and poetic cinema, borne of fierce, barely-contained vision. Read full review
90
Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsNov 5, 2020
Fire Will Come is a movie that will go down easy for the right viewer, a movie strangely energized by an unexpected dash of suspense. But the film’s ideas, the questions it sends aloft as we watch, remain stuck in our throats. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAlex SavelievOct 28, 2020
Like the inferno it depicts, Laxe’s film casts an entrancing spell. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Simran HansMar 31, 2020
Laxe has a masterly command of rhythm and pacing. The action feels unhurried, despite the film’s tight running time, and there is a spaciousness to the world-building; attentive sound design and 16mm photography capture Galicia’s damp, green allure. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSep 11, 2019
The film is much more in synchrony with the haziness of its imagery when it preserves the awkwardness between characters, the impossibility for anything other than life’s basic staples to be exchanged. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 29, 2020
Fire Will Come practically becomes a documentary, and a devastating one at that. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeJun 10, 2019
You know exactly what climax is coming in Oliver Laxe’s rustically beautiful rural parable, but its dreamy, mesmeric power lies in the waiting. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 29, 2020
Rugged, elemental, and restrained to a degree that suggests its director finds poetry in even the simplest things (his camera lingers on rolling fog or the face of a farm animal with a reverence that might prove trying for those not on his wavelength), “Fire Will Come” is a slight but evocative meditation on making peace with something that isn’t possible to understand nor extinguish. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 27, 2020
Quiet, slow-moving, ambiguous character studies might be a dime a dozen on the festival circuit, but there are few that remind us that there are things out there that still feel as big as myth. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 31, 2020
I find myself admiring his visual and compositional sense, while being a bit exasperated by the provisional and coyly non-committal nature of his storytelling. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsOct 30, 2020
That opening scene is also, in retrospect, somewhat depressing for the way that it conflates a glib fatalism with an unbelievable sort of turn-the-other-cheek optimism ("If they hurt others, it's because they hurt, too,” as Benedicta says in one scene). Read full review
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