| 100 |
Chicago Tribune
A stunner: a fiercely brilliant film of such wrenching impact, nonstop drive and unpredictability that watching it becomes an exhilarating ride.
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| 100 |
Entertainment Weekly
Fierce, loving, and electric, this movie's got bite as well as bark.
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| 100 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
An overpowering and original piece of bravura filmmaking that constitutes one of the most breathtaking and impressive directing debuts in years.
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| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
There's a seething moral core in Amores Perros that uses the canine savagery as an entre to human brutality.
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| 100 |
Time
As fine--hard, soft, approachable--as any in movie history.
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| 100 |
Wall Street Journal
One of the great films of our time, or any other.
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| 100 |
Miami Herald
Has the feel of an instant classic, a melodrama with an exacting precision and a visceral, propulsive energy.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
It'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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| 90 |
New York Magazine
It's a truly prodigious piece of work, resembling a career summation far more than a maiden voyage.
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| 90 |
Washington Post
Anguish ranges from gritty and realistic to the tragicomic soap opera found in Pedro Almodovar's films.
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| 90 |
New Times (L.A.)
A film of tremendous complexity and depth, a galvanic force that sends the mind reeling.
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| 90 |
Film.com
The 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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| 90 |
Slate
The most enthralling movie of the year.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
For 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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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Amores 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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| 88 |
Boston Globe
As 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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| 88 |
USA Today
The 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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| 88 |
Baltimore Sun
A headlong pastiche of lower-depth melodrama and absurd black comedy.
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| 88 |
New York Daily News
Strong stuff, compelling drama.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
A 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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| 80 |
Salon.com
A feverish, breathtaking tour through Mexico City high and low, an explosive, mosaic-style portrait of our continent's largest city.
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| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
Though unflinching in its savagery, Amores Perros is always compulsive viewing.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
He’s (González Iñárritu) conjured up a dark, brutal vision of urban life that sticks to your skin like soot.
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| 75 |
New York Post
A sophisticated, stylish, fast-moving piece of work.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Sometimes enticing, frequently savage.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Barbara Scharres
Solidly engaging.
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| 70 |
Variety
David Stratton
He (Gonzalez Inarritu) handles a complex plot with clarity and precision while keeping audience members on the edge of their seats.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Often thrilling, if overwhelmingly brutal, trio of interconnected short stories.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
There's something overly studied, almost clinical, in how it all pulls together.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Undeniably high-powered. At 153 minutes, it's also punishingly overlong.
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| 50 |
Charlotte Observer
This 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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