Aurora
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  • Summary: Aurora is a murder mystery turned on its head - where the mystery's not the culprit, but the motive. Inside a non-descript apartment kitchen, a man and a woman discuss the inconsistencies in Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping in the next room. Behind a line of abandoned trailers, on the outskirts of Bucharest, the same man waits for something or someone to arrive. At a metallurgical factory, he collects two hand-made firing pins secretly prepared by a coworker. the man's name is Viorel. he is 42 years old, divorced, a father of two young girls, and today he will carry out a plant that will bring order to his world. (A Cinema Guild Release)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    Jun 29, 2011
    83
    Over a difficult three-hour sprawl, Cristi Puiu's Aurora fully explores the time before and after a killer strikes, and it has the cumulative effect of making what passes for a "motive" seem absurdly simplistic.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    Jun 28, 2011
    80
    A quiet, steady burn filled with stretches of unsettlingly reverberant silence cleaved in half by a midpoint eruption of violence. Here there is before, and then there is after.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    Jul 1, 2011
    40
    Maddeningly mundane, this Romanian drama aims for an antiseptic look at random violence and, unfortunately, achieves it.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Joshua Rothkopf
    Jun 28, 2011
    20
    Puiu offers zero insight into his character; only suckers will find the pose artful or nourishing. Skip it.

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