Mountains
Music Box Films | Release Date: August 16, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)Angelica Jade BastienOct 1, 2024
Mountains is a film smart enough to forgo simplistic melodrama or narrative neatness. It’s the kind that dares us to look back and consider what it means to create a home away from the shores where you were born, in a country hostile not just to your betterment but to your very survival. Read full review
100
IndieWireChristian BlauveltAug 23, 2024
Sorelle has said that she created “Mountains” as a movie where “between plots lie moments.” How refreshing. Especially since those moments really feel like they exist, more than just “being captured.” Read full review
91
Original-CinLiam LaceySep 25, 2024
In this nuanced and often joyful film, the only violence involves the recurrent crash of bulldozers through stucco and timber walls as the neighbourhood transforms and some dreams get crushed as well. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonAug 30, 2024
A house is just a structure; what’s inside makes it a home. This film delicately shows what happens when the powers that be decide that the home you made is no longer yours. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comCarlos AguilarAug 22, 2024
Partly a tribute to the routine occurrences that collectively make a place feel like one belongs, Monica Sorelle’s delicately galvanizing slice-of-life debut “Mountains,” set in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, overflows with such details. Read full review
83
The PlaylistChristian GallichioAug 16, 2024
Sorelle may not offer much hope in terms of how one can fight against these systems that preach continual change, but her film is still a striking if slightly overstuffed, debut from a filmmaker to watch. Read full review
83
The Film StageJohn FinkJul 29, 2024
It’s rare to see a film that captures a disappearing community with such immediacy, remorse, and, yes, occasional joy. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeJul 30, 2024
Even when Mountains’ narrative, which often feels more like a series of beautifully conjured vignettes, doesn’t hit its full potential, the way Sorelle thinks of gentrification rewards our close attention. Read full review
80
ColliderErick MassotoSep 25, 2023
Mountains is the kind of movie that reminds us why we love to sit in the dark and peek at other people’s lives. It’s a three-way character study that teaches us about life, parenthood, marriage, and expectations without ever feeling preachy, boring, or flimsy. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 8, 2024
Sorelle and her documentary-real characters and the grounded unknown players playing them humanize their culture and show us their challenges are versions of all our challenges, no matter how many generations removed from it we think we are. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 29, 2024
Mountains does what it sets out to do with grace, and a sure instinct for music, color, faces and moments of decision regarding where we’ve come. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassAug 15, 2024
Mountains interprets leisure not so much as the opposite of work or struggle, but a stance that can and should suffuse each moment of life, not discounting those we sell to make a living. Read full review
70
VarietyJ. Kim MurphyAug 16, 2024
[Mountains] carries an undeniable veracity and compassion. Its narrative proves less insightful, however: too wary to crack into its protagonist’s troubled psyche, softening the film’s worthwhile political anxieties into sympathetic messaging that seems ho-hum and predetermined. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 22, 2024
As a drama, Mountains, whose characters move fluidly between English and Haitian Creole, is too low-key to leave much of an impression. But as a portrait of intergenerational tensions in an immigrant family, it is poignant, and it captures an area of Miami that is rarely seen onscreen. Read full review
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