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Opulent and odd, Bleak Street isn't quite weird enough to work.
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Although the movie doesn't flinch at presenting a dark and unsavory portrait of a down-and-out slice of humanity, it also detects a glimmer of something more in the characters, nudging the story in the direction of tragedy. Mar 10, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Although the movie doesn't flinch at presenting a dark and unsavory portrait of a down-and-out slice of humanity, it also detects a glimmer of something more in the characters, nudging the story in the direction of tragedy.
Walter V. Addiego
The true story that inspired it raises eyebrows, but those raised eyebrows are all the film provokes, as well. That just isn't enough. Jan 21, 2016 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The true story that inspired it raises eyebrows, but those raised eyebrows are all the film provokes, as well. That just isn't enough.
Mike D'Angelo
"Come, let us have a drink," says one aging streetwalker to another, "and hate everything and everyone." If that sounds tempting, then Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein's latest will be right up your dimly lit, trash-strewn alley. Jan 20, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
"Come, let us have a drink," says one aging streetwalker to another, "and hate everything and everyone." If that sounds tempting, then Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein's latest will be right up your dimly lit, trash-strewn alley.
Farran Smith Nehme
[A] sense of surreality within a mode of social realism (the scenario, believe it or not, was actually inspired by true event) ... gives the movie its off-kilter power. Jan 20, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
[A] sense of surreality within a mode of social realism (the scenario, believe it or not, was actually inspired by true event) ... gives the movie its off-kilter power.
Glenn Kenny
It's a creepy and beguiling oddity, willfully weird but, at the same time, not quite weird enough. Jan 19, 2016 | Full Review…
It's a creepy and beguiling oddity, willfully weird but, at the same time, not quite weird enough.
A.O. Scott
Ripstein finds dark humor in his characters' diminished expectations, which sag so low they're subterranean. Jan 19, 2016 | Full Review…
Ripstein finds dark humor in his characters' diminished expectations, which sag so low they're subterranean.
Lara Zarum
While undeniably outrageous at times, Bleak Street also takes its protagonists and their plights seriously. Like many of Ripstein's previous films, there is real grit and dirt within his desaturated poverty-riddled scenarios. Aug 25, 2018 | Full Review…
While undeniably outrageous at times, Bleak Street also takes its protagonists and their plights seriously. Like many of Ripstein's previous films, there is real grit and dirt within his desaturated poverty-riddled scenarios.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
No one gets away unscathed in "Bleak Street"... but no one seems beyond redemption either. Feb 14, 2018 | Full Review…
No one gets away unscathed in "Bleak Street"... but no one seems beyond redemption either.
Steve Erickson
... brims with incident, atmosphere, and character, but is low on anything that could be strictly called plot or momentum. Oct 11, 2017 | Full Review…
... brims with incident, atmosphere, and character, but is low on anything that could be strictly called plot or momentum.
José Teodoro
[Ripstein] peers at tangential characters with subtle tracking shots that make the story feel like a maze with no exit. Sep 27, 2017 | Full Review…
[Ripstein] peers at tangential characters with subtle tracking shots that make the story feel like a maze with no exit.
M. Faust
Proof of the director's obsession with the subject and inevitable repetition. [Full review in Spanish] Apr 22, 2016 | Full Review…
Proof of the director's obsession with the subject and inevitable repetition. [Full review in Spanish]
Luis Tovar
I keep hoping Ripstein will once again make a great movie. This isn't it. [Full review in Spanish] Apr 1, 2016 | Full Review…
I keep hoping Ripstein will once again make a great movie. This isn't it. [Full review in Spanish]
Ernesto Diezmartinez
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