Hot Milk

Name: Hot Milk
Genre: Drama
Released: June 27, 2025
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 55

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IFC Films | Release Date: June 27, 2025 | NR

Summary: In the scorching heat of a Spanish summer, Rose (Fiona Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey) travel to the seaside town of Almería to consult Gómez (Vincent Perez), an enigmatic healer who may hold the key to Rose’s mysterious illness. But in the sun-drenched town, Sofia, trapped until now by her mother’s condition, begins to shed herIn the scorching heat of a Spanish summer, Rose (Fiona Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey) travel to the seaside town of Almería to consult Gómez (Vincent Perez), an enigmatic healer who may hold the key to Rose’s mysterious illness. But in the sun-drenched town, Sofia, trapped until now by her mother’s condition, begins to shed her inhibitions as she is drawn to the magnetic charms of Ingrid (Vicky Krieps), a free-spirited traveller.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: NR

Runtime: 93 min

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The Film Stage Savina Petkova

Feb 24, 2026

Rarely has maternal trauma been so well-dramatized on the big screen with zest, humor, and genuine appreciation of the ambivalence baked into these relationships. Read full review

The Independent Geoffrey Macnab

Jul 10, 2025

This is slippery, subversive storytelling that’s very hard to get any firm grasp on – but that is one of its main pleasures. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Jun 27, 2025

The isolation of the setting, the elliptical dialogue, the inserts of apparently archival anthropological images, and a spare score, sometimes just one sustained note, all give “Hot Milk” a dreamlike quality, the kind of dreams that, at least while we’re dreaming, make more sense than reality. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Jun 26, 2025

A startling beauty who radiates both intelligence and a teenager-like surliness, Mackey is Hot Milk’s main point of interest and its stable anchor. She makes a meal of the scraps meted out about Sofia’s backstory, her inner thoughts, and motivations – which is what makes the film’s final moments so rankling. Read full review

David Rooney

Feb 24, 2026

I wish I could say I found Hot Milk affecting, but it’s continually dragged down by inertia, by a writer-director whose approach is too intellectual to give space to emotion. Read full review

Collider Taylor Gates

Jun 29, 2025

The sluggish pacing and lack of specific characterization make it feel longer than its hour-and-a-half runtime, though the strong performances and beautiful cinematography are just enough to keep it from ever becoming a total slog. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

Jul 10, 2025

Just when it’s threatening to pay off, it ends, with an experimental cliffhanger, not Levy’s idea. It reminds us – by simply not working – that abrupt, unresolved endings are the hardest kind to earn. Read full review

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