Metacritic reviews

Fernandez (“Used Parts”) has a masterful handle on narrative, structure and character, skillfully blending them all in a tale with atmosphere to spare.

Like everything else about this lovely film, life, love and emotional growth are marked out in lush, languid, luminous terms.

Full of long takes and matter-of-fact performances, melancholy low-contrast cinematography and desolate vistas suffused with acute loneliness, The Empty Hours captures the feeling of idling away the time, waiting for something to arrive.

Working with grace and patience, Mr. Fernández makes the mundane captivating.

Aarón Fernández captures one of the most heartening elements of sex: that it doesn't always oblige our rules or expectations.

The movie has a small story but a big theme; the theme being experience, and it conveys the emotions and moods of its characters by taking things nice and slow.

A slight anecdote expanded to slightly beyond its natural length, The Empty Hours is nevertheless time well spent.