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Formally thrilling and narratively daring, Bacurau draws on modern Brazilian sociopolitical concerns to deliver a hard-hitting, genre-blurring drama.
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For a fascinating hour or so, "Bacurau" ushers us into this strange, forbidding yet vibrant part of a world gone to hell. March 26, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
For a fascinating hour or so, "Bacurau" ushers us into this strange, forbidding yet vibrant part of a world gone to hell.
Michael Phillips
[T]he endeavour quickly degenerates into a gory and increasingly alienating splatter-filled shoot'em-up. March 16, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
[T]he endeavour quickly degenerates into a gory and increasingly alienating splatter-filled shoot'em-up.
Kevin Maher
Prepare to be amazed. March 16, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Prepare to be amazed.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
While the story is genuinely surprising and unique once it gets where it's going, the diversions along the way make Bacurau more intellectually exciting than viscerally tense, even in that gory back half. March 10, 2020 | Rating: B | Full Review…
While the story is genuinely surprising and unique once it gets where it's going, the diversions along the way make Bacurau more intellectually exciting than viscerally tense, even in that gory back half.
Katie Rife
A film that is deeply embedded within, and knowledgable of, Brazil's treacherous modern history. March 10, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A film that is deeply embedded within, and knowledgable of, Brazil's treacherous modern history.
Biju Belinky
Bacurau never wastes a chance to leave a mark on its audience. March 6, 2020 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Bacurau never wastes a chance to leave a mark on its audience.
Monica Castillo
The filmmakers, with their weirdly weird western, are making some powerful statements about their native country and its ultraconservative and destructive, for the people, government. March 31, 2020 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The filmmakers, with their weirdly weird western, are making some powerful statements about their native country and its ultraconservative and destructive, for the people, government.
Robin Clifford
A thrilling social parable for contemporary politics - in Brazil specifically but with enough universality to have it feel familiar enough abroad - Bacurau is the kind of non-English language film primed to find a devout audience in the United States March 31, 2020 | Full Review…
A thrilling social parable for contemporary politics - in Brazil specifically but with enough universality to have it feel familiar enough abroad - Bacurau is the kind of non-English language film primed to find a devout audience in the United States
Manuel Betancourt
One of the most hyper-political films in recent memory, and one that transcends borders with its potent universal message: Don't mess with honest, hard-working people. March 29, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
One of the most hyper-political films in recent memory, and one that transcends borders with its potent universal message: Don't mess with honest, hard-working people.
Edwin Arnaudin
A deeply serious satire about what happens when the oppressed stop being polite and start getting real, Bacurau is the most fun you can legally have with a machete right now. March 29, 2020 | Rating: A | Full Review…
A deeply serious satire about what happens when the oppressed stop being polite and start getting real, Bacurau is the most fun you can legally have with a machete right now.
Ryan Syrek
'Bacurau' is definitely weird, a quasi-Western mashed up with psychedelic sci-fi and political satire. March 27, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
'Bacurau' is definitely weird, a quasi-Western mashed up with psychedelic sci-fi and political satire.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Bacurau is as funny, furious, and exhilaratingly alive as any film of the past five years. March 27, 2020 | Full Review…
Bacurau is as funny, furious, and exhilaratingly alive as any film of the past five years.
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