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100A stunner: a fiercely brilliant film of such wrenching impact, nonstop drive and unpredictability that watching it becomes an exhilarating ride.
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100Has the feel of an instant classic, a melodrama with an exacting precision and a visceral, propulsive energy.
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100An overpowering and original piece of bravura filmmaking that constitutes one of the most breathtaking and impressive directing debuts in years.
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100There's a seething moral core in Amores Perros that uses the canine savagery as an entre to human brutality.
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100Fierce, loving, and electric, this movie's got bite as well as bark.
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100As fine--hard, soft, approachable--as any in movie history.
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100One of the great films of our time, or any other.
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90It's a truly prodigious piece of work, resembling a career summation far more than a maiden voyage.
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90The titillating sense of out-of-controlness provoked by the camera is echoed in the film's narrative situations, and you simply, and deliciously, haven't a clue as to what he's going to throw at you next.
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90It's a film of high energy, punctuated by rock music and a dark wit, yet it is capable of profound reflection and tragic irony.
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90The most enthralling movie of the year.
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90Anguish ranges from gritty and realistic to the tragicomic soap opera found in Pedro Almodovar's films.
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90A film of tremendous complexity and depth, a galvanic force that sends the mind reeling.
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89For those willing to submit to its terrible charms, it may be the single most important debut to come out of the Americas in years.
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88Amores Perros will be too much for some filmgoers, just as "Pulp Fiction" was and "Santa Sangre" certainly was, but it contains the spark of inspiration.
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88Strong stuff, compelling drama.
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88The gritty, Oscar-nominated "Traffic" is a limo ride compared with the bloodletting in this year's foreign-film nominee from Mexico.
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88As bloody as any recent film. But it's shot through with a harsh, stony humor that's invigorating enough to be regarded as a slap back at death.
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88A headlong pastiche of lower-depth melodrama and absurd black comedy.
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80Though unflinching in its savagery, Amores Perros is always compulsive viewing.
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80A feverish, breathtaking tour through Mexico City high and low, an explosive, mosaic-style portrait of our continent's largest city.
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80A film in which nothing is what it seems, this is the kind of genre touch that Mr. González Iñárritu expands into something far more haunting.
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80He’s (González Iñárritu) conjured up a dark, brutal vision of urban life that sticks to your skin like soot.
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75Sometimes enticing, frequently savage.
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75A sophisticated, stylish, fast-moving piece of work.
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70He (Gonzalez Inarritu) handles a complex plot with clarity and precision while keeping audience members on the edge of their seats.
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Solidly engaging.
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60Often thrilling, if overwhelmingly brutal, trio of interconnected short stories.
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60There's something overly studied, almost clinical, in how it all pulls together.
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50This isn't a cheerful movie. But director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga tell these stories with authority and verve, making 2½ hours zip by.
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50Undeniably high-powered. At 153 minutes, it's also punishingly overlong.
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