Neighbouring Sounds Reviews

Kleber Mendonça Filho's Neighboring Sounds is a film one would love to like.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Brazilian drama about class, privilege and crime blurs its vision.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

For those who don't mind that lingering, almost voyeuristic display of human behaviour, this confident and promising debut is a must-see.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Neighbouring Sounds is a clever, original drama of social concern, with trivial incidents barely masking deep social fissures.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Filho's use of space is masterful, as fine as Antonioni or Polanski, with long Steadicam tracks and crisp wide shots giving us a fine-grained rendering of the block's communal and private spaces.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The film promises a little more than it delivers, and at over two hours there are moments where it drags. But as a statement of intent, 'Neighbouring Sounds' is incredibly bold.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Has echoes of Michael Haneke as it explores the guilty secrets and bitter resentments lurking beneath the calm, respectable surface of a community in affluent Recife.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Similar to the slow-creep style of Dogtooth director Giorgos Lanthimos, the narrative unfolds with escalating tension, the cause of which is heard and felt but not always seen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Neighbouring Sounds is scary, funny, mischievous, intelligent, magisterial: a picture of man and woman as social animal in which the animal never lurks far beneath the social.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Violence feels just around the corner, and we're kept guessing where it might come from.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho's arresting, energetically oblique debut.

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This is a movie to get lost in. Kleber Mendonça Filho - you're on our list.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A well-made thriller that serves as an allegory for contemporary Brazilian society.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

O Som ao Redor se revela não um estudo de personagens, mas um autêntico estudo de classe.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

"Neighboring Sounds" presents itself not only as a character study, but also as an authentic socio-economic class study.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

With his sound designer, Pablo Lamar, Mr. Mendonça has created the aural landscape of a horror movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

'Neighboring Sounds" unfolds like a casual nightmare in the light of day.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Filho's anxiety-inducing formal control is in full force throughout this multicharacter narrative, which interweaves nearly a dozen principals.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

One of the strongest feature debuts of the last decade ...

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

An absorbing and extremely promising film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5