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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Fados connects today's leading interpreters with legendary fadistas of the past. And it's the last title to be released under the banner of the venerable New Yorker Films. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    A centerpiece of the film is a tribute to the late, legendary Amlia Rodrigues, a woman of commanding, majestic beauty and presence, who is seen with her pianist in rehearsal, searching out every nuance of a song she is to perform. Unfortunately, Fado's other performers are not identified. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Jonathan Curiel

    For those who've never before heard fado, Fados will be a revelation - a window into a music that (like blues music) can be poetic, heartbreaking, melodramatic and redemptive, all at the same time. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    As a production, Fados is pretty with its reflected surfaces and many projected images. But at times it hurts for the bite and texture of life outside that studio. For all the dolorous singing about and shots of streets, it'd be nice to hit one. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Post | V.A. Musetto

    There are no talking heads, but lots of singing heads and sexy dancing bodies, many of them belonging to stars in Spain. In total, there are more than a dozen performance pieces, all stylishly lensed. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    This veteran Spanish director has, in his latest, created both a tribute to an art form and a performance archive. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post |

    The movie, set entirely on a beautifully lit soundstage filled with musicians, dancers, mirrors and projection screens, presents some of the country's most acclaimed fadoistas, singing tributes to the art form and some of its greatest legends. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice |

    Saura is formally ambitious--a troupe travels through the film, articulating lyrics in dance--but the movie missteps when departing wholly from the intrinsic nostalgia of its subject, as the seventysomething director imposes his idea of contemporary cool. Read full review

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