Reviews
Variety: The Church Is the ‘Elephant in the Room’ in Indian Rotterdam Selection ‘Family’
BOMB interview: Static Shots and Deep Focus: Don Palathara Interviewed by Arun A.K.
Film Companion: In Family, Don Palathara Makes A Brilliant Blue-Print of a Close-Knit Community
NDTV: Don Palathara's Film Is Mellow, Incisive And Attentively Chiselled. (4.5 / 5)
Baradwaj Rangan: A wonderfully sinister drama about conforming to one’s community
Asian Movie Pulse: Family Review
OTTPlay: The Church & Faith At All Costs In Don Palathara’s Family
Hindustan Times: A richly minimalistic, unsettling gem from Don Palathara that demands your attention
New Indian Express: Don Palathara's extraordinary Family paints a tranquil yet unsettling picture (4.5 / 5)
First Post: Family movie review: Poetic minimalism brilliantly used to capture a society sweeping its skeletons under a carpet (4.5 / 5)
Vague Visages : Family is a sobering indictment of a Kerala community’s malfeasance and duplicity masked behind a calm facade of camaraderie.
Cineticle (Russian) : Vision Pedagogy: The Family by Don Palathara
The News Minute: Don Palathara’s chilling film lays bare how society protects predators
Money Control: 'Family' and Don Palathara's 'grey cinema': Church, community, and the cunning
Scroll: Malayalam movie "Family" is an elegant study in elision
The Week: Palathara's most critical take on the culture of 'cover up'
The Federal: A sinister portrait of Kerala’s Christian community’s moral decay
Highonfilms: Subtle and Chilling, Family looks at a predator, outside-in
TalkingFilms: Don Palathara’s Family is an exquisitely crafted arthouse film
Fipresci India: Don Palathara’s Family (2023) is More complex than Usual
Babu Subramanian: Whitewashing a Leopard: Don Palathara’s FAMILY (2023)
Anand Sudha: Closed Doors Policy: Family (2023)
BNN Breaking: Challenging Cinematic Norms with 'Family' and the Untold Rural Narratives