Critic Reviews
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Metascore
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positive
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Bear Cub casually pulls off an amazing feat--combining innocent childhood nostalgia and graphic sexuality.
75
A compassionate, life-affirming Spanish comedy-drama.
75
The audience gets all of the love, with none of the guilt. It's enough to give you faith in family dramas again.
75
The film's ambitions are laudable, and it manages to be touching, funny and true to life. It seems ungrateful to ask for anything more.
75
Cachorro's main flaw is in its ending, which seems somewhat abrupt and unfinished, but these characters have become so endearing by then that it hardly seems to matter.
70
At the end, Bear Cub does have a brush with sentimentality. But by then, its integrity and low-key truthfulness has been certified in a dozen different ways.
70
Taking a seed of an idea and nurturing it into a fable about moral hypocrisy, Bearcub substantiates prolific Spanish helmer Miguel Albaladejo's rep for well-observed, character-based dramas with an offbeat twist and a potent emotional undertow.
70
Isn’t just a "gay movie." There are just gay people in it. Anyone can get into this lovable film.
70
Moves deftly from a wry and affectionate father-son bonding comedy to wrenching drama.
67
Purrs with uncommon emotion.
