December 8, 2006
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Valeria Bertuccelli, Adrián Navarro, Ingrid Rubio, Nicolás Pauls, Milton De La Canal
Natalia and Elena Levin, two sisters forced to separate as teenagers in 1975, right after Natalia's militant boyfriend Martin was disappeared by the military dictatorship, reunite in 1984 in a country... read more 
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December 5, 2006
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
The ghost of 1970s Argentina haunts 1980s Texas in this perceptive and beautifully acted drama from the Argentine director Julia Solomonoff.
December 8, 2006
Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Solomonoff cuts back and forth between 1984 and 1976, gradually revealing the truth of what happened, but the mystery is less important than the complex relationship between Natalia and Elena, which w... Full Review
December 1, 2006
Phil Hall, Film Threat
Solomonoff's screenplay unwisely telegraphs key events long before they turn up on screen, and her direction is so slovenly that the film often feels like a surveillance video with English subtitles. Full Review
November 25, 2006
Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
Better than the film's soap-operatic flashbacks, familiar slogs through Cautiva terrain, are the story's playful, unpretentious observations of culture-clash and assimilation. Full Review
March 9, 2006
Laura Kelly, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Sisters (Hermanas) tends toward the melodramatic, but has a lot to say about the struggle to accept the past in order to move forward.
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