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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe gritty photography is a perfect match for the film's harsh realities, the script is taut (not a word or motion is wasted) and the acting is raw and realistic.
- 80Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisLos Angeles TimesManohla DargisThere are no big surprises in Caetano's film, which plays out exactly as ordained, only a sense of life at its most precarious and real.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanTurns the dangerous monotony of poverty and unemployment into something nearly hypnotic.
- 70The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasCaetano's blunt, deterministic ending underlines the point too neatly, but in dignifying an outcast whose life is treated as anonymous and disposable, he puts a human face on a national tragedy.
- 70The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThis film, Mr. Caetano's feature-length directorial debut, has an emotional integrity that's concise and direct.
- 60Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonVirtually plot-free, the movie's organic cultivation of Argentina's economic tension and ethnophobic woes is smooth as silk.
- 40VarietyDeborah YoungVarietyDeborah YoungA dignified second film for Caetano.