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I'm Still Here Review (2024) — 89% Celluloid Score

Directed by Walter Salles · 2024 ·

Answer Summary

I'm Still Here (2024) earns a 89% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Critics and audiences are closely aligned on this one.

Quick Verdict

Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, Letterboxd, IMDb). See how we calculate scores.

89%
Celluloid Score Recommended

Five-source breakdown

97% Critic Score
93% Audience
85 Metascore
★★★★☆ Letterboxd 4.4
8.3 IMDb /10
Runtime
2h 17m
Cast
Fernanda Torres , Selton Mello , Fernanda Montenegro

🏆 2 award wins · 2 nominations — Won Best International Feature Film, Academy Awards 2025

Why this score?

  • Strong critic approval (97% positive).
  • Audiences widely enjoyed it (93%).
  • Metascore signals universal acclaim (85/100).
  • Letterboxd diarists rate it highly (4.4/5).
  • IMDb users score it 8.3/10.

Best for

  • Viewers who want a well-regarded drama, biography pick

Not ideal for

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    Is I'm Still Here worth watching?

    Yes — I'm Still Here earns a 89% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

    Critics Consensus

    Walter Salles returns with a restrained, deeply moving portrait of resilience under dictatorship, crowned by a luminous Fernanda Torres in the performance of her career.

    Celluloid Critics Consensus

    Critics and audiences are closely aligned on this one.

    What is I'm Still Here about?

    In 1970s Rio under military dictatorship, a mother of five rebuilds her family after her husband is disappeared by the regime — a quietly devastating true story of private endurance held against decades of state-enforced silence.

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