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Bless Me, Ultima
Directed by
Carl Franklin
PG-13
2013
1h 46m
Drama
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6.4
69%
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A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.
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Cast of Bless Me, Ultima
Luke Ganalon
Antonio
Miriam Colon
Ultima
Benito Martinez
Gabriel
Dolores Heredia
Maria
Castulo Guerra
Tenorio
Joaquín Cosío
Narciso
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
Uncle Pedro
Reko Moreno
Uncle Lucas
Luis Bordonada
Uncle Juan
Joseph A. Garcia
Uncle Mateo
Raúl Castillo
Andrew
Diego Miró
Florence
Alfred Molina
Voice of Antonio
Bless Me, Ultima Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Here's a coming-of-age movie that feels both generic and personal.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Reminiscent of Billy Bob Thornton's "All the Pretty Horses" or Lasse Hallstrm's "The Shipping News" - literary adaptations that got the look right, while lacking the easy flow of the original work.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Bless Me, Ultima has its earnest heart - and setting - in the right place.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Writer-director Carl Franklin offers up a tone of heightened reverence that weighs down the material, but there are small, lovely moments when the magic realism approaches the magical.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Theater firebrand and big-screen presence Miriam Colon portrays Ultima with a minimum of fuss and a gorgeous supply of elder authority.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A deeply satisfying feat of storytelling, "Bless Me, Ultima" makes a difficult task look easy.
Arizona Republic
Randy Cordova
The lyrical book is filled with touches of magical realism. On the other hand, the movie is sorely lacking in both magic and realism. It's all very empty and blah.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
A mostly gentle and tastefully photographed depiction of a young boy's coming of age in rural 1940s New Mexico.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Lots of films (and lots of books) have charted a boy's path to manhood. Bless Me, Ultima is special because it's about this boy, in this time and place, where his peers and elders are rushing to label him before he can forge his own identity.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Carl Franklin's film is true to the tone and spirit of the book. It is patient and in no hurry. It allows a balanced eye for the people in its hero's family who tug him one way and another.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Franklin's eye is alert to both the landscape and his ensemble of performers. Call "Bless Me, Ultima" a mixed blessing.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Although Bless Me, Ultima can feel a bit overstuffed, it's an honest and naturalistic kids' story about growing up Mexican-American.
Orlando Weekly
Marjorie Baumgarten
The film won't disappoint fans of the book, although they may regret some of the adaptation's necessary condensation and/or elimination of narrative themes and events.
Slant Magazine
Glenn Heath Jr.
The film's interest in social themes remains background fodder within a far more generic good-versus-evil narrative.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Aassured, sensitive, and commendably unpretentious.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
An offbeat slice of Americana will intrigue thoughtful moviegoers.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Its very existence in a godforsaken marketplace is a minor miracle.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Nearly as sacred as the Good Book itself in some circles, Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima has survived the leap to the bigscreen with much of its magic intact, thanks to a respectful if somewhat wooden adaptation by writer-director Carl Franklin.
Oregonian
Jamie S. Rich
The low-level magical realism never gels with the coming-of-age drama.
Times-Picayune
Mike Scott
It knows exactly what kind of film it is -- unfortunately, what kind of film it is, is an unimaginatively directed coming-of-age tale with hardly any narrative momentum.
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