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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanThe New York TimesNatalia Winkelman"Huesera" is the type of staggering supernatural nightmare that is as transfixing as it is terrifying.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeThe Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeDig deeper and Huesera reveals itself to be a wilier film — an astute study of desire and self-deception.
- Huesera is a sermon, a spell, a treatise on how destructive societal expectations and motherhood in general can be to someone’s identity.
- 90Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarLos Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarThe remarkable debut from writer-director Michelle Garza Cervera is as effectively blood-curdling as it is intellectually incisive.
- 83The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakCervera’s feature debut is an accordingly powerful depiction of motherhood’s oft-overlooked cost.
- Propelled by a superb central performance by Natalia Solian, the film’s potential excesses are held under tight control as it takes us, like a Mexican riff on Rosemary’s Baby, on a nightmare journey through the dark side of motherhood involving gaslighting, body horror, and the occult.
- 80VarietyManuel BetancourtVarietyManuel BetancourtExamining the bone-breaking work that being a mother can be, Garza Cervera’s tale is most thrilling for the ways it refuses any tidy answers about a woman’s place and wallows (and finds plenty of terror) in the ambiguities therein.
- 77Paste MagazineKevin Fox, Jr.Paste MagazineKevin Fox, Jr.Huesera may have needed more scares or a darker ending to push it over the top, but as is, it’s a thoughtful meditation on choice, love and the anguish of expectation, dressed in the clothing of a clear-eyed, anxious body horror.
- 75Slant MagazineWes GreeneSlant MagazineWes GreeneThe film is a sensitive character study disguised as an unnerving exercise in body horror.
- 60IGNMatt DonatoIGNMatt DonatoThe horrors of childbirth become entangled in a demonic subplot as Huesera fits neatly into the list of chilling pregnancy horror tales, but doesn’t add much new to it.