81
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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceUnadulterated labor is the focus of this blistering, beautifully modulated documentary from Mexican auteur Eugenio Polgovsky.
- This is awareness-raising documentary cinema at its most urgent and necessary.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichToward the end of the film, a few hard-hitting cuts between young and old brings the title's meaning home: These children have an inescapable life of drudgery before them, and there's little likelihood it will change anytime soon.
- 80The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisHis film opens with a lullaby, and while there is indeed something soothing in his images of repetitive, backbreaking toil, the music also serves as a reminder of childhood lost.
- 75Slant MagazineJesse CataldoSlant MagazineJesse CataldoAssembled from short, naturalistic shots of people at work, the documentary becomes a bittersweet testament to labor and a damning representation of a vicious cycle, its images speaking entirely for themselves.