Romería
| Release Date: June 26, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 23, 2025
Romería‘s exploration of closure and self-discovery makes for an absorbing watch. Read full review
80
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaJun 25, 2026
The slowly-building drama between Marina and her extended family plays with lovely (if somewhat generic) naturalism. But as these tensions subtly reveal the enduring stigma of her parents’ disease — with Marina representing an uncomfortable reminder of that past — a separate, thrilling experiment plays out that eventually dives into spectral fantasy. Read full review
80
Time OutMatthew SingerMay 15, 2026
It’s a bold tilt into magical realism, but the effect is never jarring – rather, it’s a moving capstone to a film which argues that the act of remembering is itself a form of magic. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeMay 23, 2025
Simón’s sweetly sorrowful ode to lost family imagines what might have been, while acknowledging that not all memories can be passed down between generations — some die deliciously with us. Read full review
80
Screen DailyWendy IdeMay 23, 2025
While this picture lacks the guileless immediacy of the child’s-eye view of her first two films, Romeria demonstrates once again that Simon has a rare gift for capturing the unpredictable, mercurial beast that is the family. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 23, 2025
Simón has an instinctive and almost miraculous way of just immersing herself within extended freewheeling family scenes – her camera moving unobtrusively in the group, like another teenager at the party, quietly noticing everything. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaSep 23, 2025
Carla Simón’s instinct for sketching in crucial narrative and character detail within a naturalistic context remains as unerring as ever. Read full review
70
Little White LiesRafaela Sales RossMay 8, 2026
Romería is loyal to its sense of withholding almost until the very end. It is then, finally, that Simon reaches the grand apex of her journey of self-reflection, one that holds in the stunning clarity of carefully chosen words a moving encompassing of how one can only build a sturdy foundation for the future after lovingly repairing the unrectified cracks of the past. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMonica CastilloJun 25, 2026
Each new truth unearths a new layer of tragedy, but Romería pushes Marina, and by extension Simón, to dig deeper to understand her parents and the family they are all a part of. It’s awkward and painful, yet so is solving the mystery of the previous generation. Read full review
67
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMay 23, 2025
Romería isn’t without its own unique shape, or visual vitality, or a narrative sense of joie de vivre, but it doesn’t always stand out from the pack even as Simón deserves credit for rendering her autobiography in aesthetically sublime terms. Read full review
67
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodMay 23, 2025
In the hands of another filmmaker, these events could be the sparks of loud and fiery confrontations, but Simón insists they play out in a grounded, quiet fashion. There is barely a hint of melodrama, even when you can sense the tension amongst the siblings and their parents. Read full review
60
The TimesEd PottonMay 23, 2025
A sensual reframing of a story that must still be raw for Simón, 38, the film doesn’t quite match the subtlety and originality of Summer 1993. It’s a satisfying enough addition to the saga, though, and a fillip for the Galician tourist board. Read full review
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