"The baseline is a drama of criminality and redemption, but then there’s an unforced current of Almodóvarian humor, along with moments of melodrama, noir, social realism, a hint of telenovela camp and a climactic escalation into suspense, ultimately touched by tragedy."

"Like a rose blooming amid a minefield, it’s a miracle that Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez exists: a south-of-the-border pop opera about a most unlikely metamorphosis and the personal redemption it awakens in a stone-cold criminal. The film is consistent with a career spent imagining milieus far from his and immersing audiences in those worlds, without reductive psychology or judgment. A powerful, unfiltered portrait of someone who challenges several stereotypes at once."