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Battle in Heaven
  • Studio: Tartan
  • Release Date: Feb 17, 2006
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56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

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  • Summary: Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money, but it goes tragically wrong when the infant dies. In another world is Ana, the daughter of the general he drives for, who prostitutes herself for pleasure. Marcos confesses his guilt to her in his troubled search for relief. And then finds himself on his knees amidst the multitude of believers moving slowly towards the Basilica in honour of the Lady of Guadalupe. (Tartan Films)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    80
    Promiscuously inhabiting several planes at once, Reygadas's restless inquisition may already be this year's movie to beat.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    60
    Reygadas is an undeniably important artist hewing his own path, but who is also self-consciously playing to the tastes of a tiny elite audience that craves obscurantism, confrontation and heavy-handed symbolism. Still, I really want you to see this. Then I'll have somebody to talk about it with.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    33
    A notorious opinion divider last year at Cannes, Battle in Heaven is less about heaven or battle, or hell on earth, or the soul of Mexico, and all too much about gawking. And so, for all the ''shock'' of the movie's clinical carnality, this battle is lost.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. RicardoR.
    10
    One of the most interesting directors right now. Delivers a MASTERPIECE. I didn't like "Japon", but this one, Oh my god is just incredible.
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  2. LouisA.
    10
    An amazing film that cuts right to the heart of ideology and cultural apparati in the modern developing country.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. JimA.
    0
    This movie was a complete failure. Sex scenes with no point and actors who don't even know how to play! Finally the end is not explain anything. I know the plot only because I read it somewhere!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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