| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 17, 2007

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 19, 2004

A sad, slow-moving tale, marked by literal as well as spiritual poverty.

| Aug 8, 2004

As pretentious and wispy as its title.

| Jul 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 20, 2004

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 3, 2004

A ponderous, quiet little mess that has nothing to say and no idea how to say it anyway.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 3, 2004

A self-consciously arty piece that may be psychologically useful to its writer-director but is torture for its audience.

| Original Score: D- | Jun 20, 2004

He suffers, we suffer - the end.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 18, 2004

Mr. Hernndez's attempt to put an interior landscape on film a la Pasolini may seem stultifying and pretentious, but it's also a brave dark experiment.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 17, 2004

Succeeds in alienating us.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 21, 2004

Hernandez's desire to utilize all the armaments of the filmmaker hits the viewer with a visceral force.

Full Review | May 4, 2004

A murky and morbid dirge of a gay romance set in Mexico City.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 16, 2004

Combined with the careful posing, enigmatic action and flowery language, it all amounts to something less than an 80-minute Calvin Klein advertisement.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2004

Self-indulgent in the extreme, Julian Hernandez's laconic ode to heartbreak feels like the work of a lovelorn teenager.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 16, 2004

Ponderous and pretentious.

| Original Score: D | Apr 16, 2004

A Thousand Clouds of Peace is a difficult film, both in form and substance, but it's that form and substance that makes it worthwhile, raising it above the level of typical angsty gay art-house cinema.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2004

Works principally as a mood piece, with the gorgeous cinematography doing much of the heavy lifting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2004

Enduring this black-and-white mood piece from Mexico is like putting up with an acquaintance who drones on and on about the pain of an unrequited love.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 15, 2004