The Blue Trail
Dekanalog | Release Date: April 3, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonApr 3, 2026
This is a rebellious, empathetic adventure story about a grandmother who catches on that her society needs to learn how to think freely. Read full review
90
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyAug 12, 2025
The Blue Trail is entrancingly unpredictable in its picaresque unravelling, tinged with magical realist touches. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAug 12, 2025
What’s remarkable about The Blue Trail and makes it such a delight is that despite all the oppression in the air, it’s a movie filled with hope and faith in human resilience at any age. The closing image will make your heart soar. And no, it’s not the one you were expecting. Read full review
88
ObserverSiddhant AdlakhaSep 24, 2025
Few films this year have been as soulful or as quietly defiant. Read full review
85
Film ThreatBen GliddenApr 3, 2026
The Blue Trail is an examination of not only what it means to be free, but what it feels like to earn that freedom yourself. Read full review
83
IndieWireRyan LattanzioApr 3, 2026
Mascaro’s wry and witty new film will remind savvy audiences of bleak apocalyptic films about humanity’s potential loss of feeling against technologies that crush them. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyApr 17, 2026
The script, written by the director and Tibério Azul, occasionally fumbles its dystopian framework. But the journey has enough vigour, underpinned by ideas on autonomy and ageing, to sustain its adventure. Read full review
80
IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellApr 2, 2026
While The Blue Trail ends on a tenuous note, it envisions a troubling, slippery slope of a future which doesn’t seem inherently unimaginable. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 12, 2025
The “Neon Bull” director has always had an incredible visual sense, though his plots tend to lack focus. Not this one. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 22, 2026
Director and co-writer Gabriel Mascaro (“Neon Bull,” “August Winds”) keeps his film anchored in harsh realities of a present doomed to drift into an even uglier future, even as he traffics in allegories and parables and tropes of mythic trips of self-discovery dating back to Homer’s “The Odyssey.” Read full review
75
The Film StageRory O'ConnorAug 12, 2025
Credit to both Weinberg’s no-nonsense performance and the director’s surrealist instincts. There is a late sequence in this film, wherein Tereza visits a floating casino, that contains some of the most vividly beautiful images I’ve seen so far this year. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineMarshall ShafferFeb 26, 2025
An empowering narrative of one woman who refuses to see age as a ceiling, the film serves as a potent warning for viewers about the marginalization of the elderly. Read full review
67
Original-CinChris KnightApr 2, 2026
If Logan’s Run and The African Queen had a baby, it might look something like Brazilian dystopian sci-fi drama The Blue Trail. If that’s too much of a narrative stretch, then imagine a close cousin to 2024’s Can I Get a Witness? Except, sadly, not nearly as good. Read full review
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