How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

The comedy is not quite so dark that her dysfunctional family have murderous plans — but elbows are still sharpened in a tale of everyday avarice.

It's a good, solid bittersweet dramedy about families and family legacies.

Strong ensemble acting makes the family a believable unit, their differences notwithstanding. But it’s the evolving rapport between M and Amah that makes the film so captivating.

An audience-pleasing tear-jerker that set box-office records across southeast Asia, this heartfelt comedy drama is Thailand’s official submission for the Oscars.

A droll, perceptive and shamelessly sentimental look at generational tensions.

This is a tear-jerker that does not shrink from using plangent piano chords on the soundtrack to tell you when to feel sad, but it also has something interesting to say about intergenerational wealth.

A prickly picture that examines the many forms that family dysfunction can take.

Manages to transcend the trappings that a movie with a similar logline would willingly drown in, placing the intricacies of its principal relationship at the forefront as opposed to leaning to unnatural antagonism.

... A display of modest sentimentalism and a clumsy commitment to the stillness of objects and the laconicism of existence only reveal a bad disciple of Yasujiro Ozu, via Hirokazu Kore-eda. [Full review in Spanish]

Because you can come from a culture that is practically unknown within the practice of other cultures, but what How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies tells us is universal. [Full review in Spanish]