Uruguayan cinema punches well above its weight for such a small country, with directors like Pablo Stoll and Juan Pablo Rebella putting it on the map with deadpan, quietly devastating comedies in the early 2000s. The local industry has grown steadily since, producing work that tends toward dry wit and understated realism. Browse Macca's Uruguayan reviews below.
Rating: 2.5★
Utama, which takes its title from the Quechua word for "our home", arrived in 2022 carrying a substantial weight of festival expectation. It won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, placing it in a lineage of landscape-driven, politically conscious films from Latin America that use
Genre Drama
★★★ — Monos (2019)
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