100
It’s a powerful look at the durability of parent-child bonds as well as a fascinating psychological thriller about what it takes to heal such a rift when it seems irreparable.
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What are critics saying?
90
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
The often-tense mother-daughter dance of recrimination and forgiveness is spectacularly acted.
100
With breathtaking elegance and stunning assurance, Ramón Salazar takes a melodramatic chestnut and makes it flower with unexpected emotion in Sunday’s Illness.
90
The Hollywood Reporter by Jonathan Holland
This story about the reunion, following a 35-year abandonment, of a mother and daughter, marvelously played by Spanish actors Susi Sanchez and Barbara Lennie, respectively, is slow but never ponderous, clear in its outlines but never simplistic, and elegantly crafted without being stifling.
70
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Salazar’s deliberateness of image and tone can sometimes feel like its own archly overemphasized meaning, but it’s never less than an artfully sincere companion to the drama of missing years and reconsidered choices that fortifies Sunday’s Illness.
100
Screen International by Wendy Ide
Sunday’s Illness doesn’t put a foot wrong.