The Offering (Catalan: L'ofrena) is a 2020 Spanish thriller drama film directed by Ventura Durall which stars Anna Alarcón, Alex Brendemühl, and Verónica Echegui alongside Pablo Molinero, Josh Climent, and Claudia Riera.
Jordi Batlle Caminal of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, highlighting an "extremely committed" Echegui, playing a "complex and difficult character", as the best thing about the film, while citing the lack of plausibility in some of the characters' attitudes as a negative point.
[9] Beatriz Martínez of El Periódico de Catalunya rated The Offering 3 out of 5 stars, considering that the film (featuring an intensity "bordering on Greek-tragedy levels" and a group of actors "working their tails off") is worth watching insofar the viewer be able to get involved in the depicted "swirl of obsessions and guilt", even though the experience may be erratic.
[10] Phil Hoad of The Guardian rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, lamenting that the "torrid and sophisticated story", "wrapped in Hitchcockian shadow, fascinated by questions of identity, desire and time" is limited by a "humdrum televisual ambience that's a bit unsatisfying".
[3] Elsa Fernández-Santos of El País assessed that despite some flashes and a "certain suspense in its erotic voltage", everything in the film is subject to its "absurd writing".