SummaryRoma follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s. ... Read More
Directed By:Alfonso Cuarón
Written By:Alfonso Cuarón
Roma
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
96
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Generally Favorable
7.6
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Dec 14, 2018
100
We get what is easily the most personal and intimate film of Cuarón's career to date. His Roma is a movie with a clear and distinct setting but one that boasts universal appeal. It's also built around a relatively small, narrowly focused story -- but one that deserves to be seen on as big a screen as possible.
Dec 5, 2018
100
Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is a wondrously pure example of one of the great gifts that cinema can give us: to drop us into a time, a place and a life; immersing us in the sounds and the sights and the emotions, large and small, experienced by someone we’re not.
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78% Positive
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Aug 26, 2025
10
Alfonso Cuaron es lo mejor que le ha pasado a Mexico. Esta película es personal, profunda y un arte que se convertirá en culto en algún futuro no tan lejano.
Apr 30, 2025
10
Roma là phim nghệ thuật đen trắng kể về đời sống người giúp việc trong gia đình Mexico thập niên 70, đầy tinh tế và cảm xúc.
Nov 19, 2018
100
Though it takes the risk of appearing too quiet too long, Roma and its melding of the personal with a glimpse of a society veering toward collapse is incontestably persuasive, a film whose like we are not likely to see again.
Aug 30, 2018
100
At times it feels novelistic, a densely realised, intimate drama giving us access to domestic lives developing in what feels like real time. In its engagingly episodic way, it is also at times like a soap opera or telenovela. And at other times it feels resoundingly like an epic.
Nov 23, 2018
91
As evocative and soulful as I found parts of this movie, I experienced these stylistics as more evasion than immersion. Cuarón is so careful to avoid overdramatizing the narrative that his steady-state underplaying ends up seeming equally coercive. But this is not how we are supposed to react to “Roma.” We are supposed to regard it as “real life.”
Sep 12, 2018
83
Roma is both visually and emotionally arresting, grandiose and intensely intimate all at once.
Nov 13, 2018
63
Roma is arty and beautiful, but also a bit like sitting on a sofa while Cuarón flips through family photo albums, never narrating or over-explaining any single moment or image.
Nov 23, 2024
10
Cinematic masterpiece: hosted by an incredible lead performance who tells the story of an ordinary family through extraordinary sociopolitical events. The production and the technical compartment are pushed further, generating a powerful and absolutely breathtaking vision.
May 25, 2019
6
This movie suffers from lots of problems in the senario and I can't understand the characters ans why they do this madness behavior. It really needs to describe more about what the f*** is happening in the city and inside the characters.
Mar 3, 2019
6
Although I acknowledge that Roma is a well-made film, is this a story worth making a movie about?
May 11, 2021
3
While watching I was asking myself, what is this movie about. Even after 30 minutes there was not much of a story, just mundane stuff, so yes thats boring. Later on there were some dramas finally: But the movie shows this theme so one-sided (only the woman side and do not show anything about the motives of the 2 men), that it is more a feminist = political correct propaganda than a good movie.
Technically the movie is ok: easy to be persuaded to see Mexico in the 70s.
Production Company:
- Esperanto Filmoj
- Participant
- Pimienta Films
Release Date:Nov 21, 2018
Duration:2 h 15 m
Rating:R
Tagline:There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 10 Wins & 15 Nominations
