90 The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt Biutiful has a strong, linear narrative drive. Nevertheless, and most of all, it's a gorgeous, melancholy tone poem about love, fatherhood and guilt. Read full review
88 Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea Biutiful is strong stuff, it will leave you shaken. There's poetry here, and catastrophe. Read full review
88 USA Today | Claudia Puig Bardem's soulful turn lends this haunting meditation a sense of hope and saves it from the contrived missteps it teeters toward. Read full review
75 San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle Biutiful exists, at its best and beautifully, in that space that's hard to define, between the outside and the interior, action and thought, body and soul. Read full review