The writer and director combine the gravity, narrative sweep and emotional pull of traditional literature with the dazzling visuals and pungent music of contemporary entertainment.

| Jul 15, 2023

It’s an incredible piece of work that deserves to be seen again and again.

| Mar 2, 2023

It's mindboggling to realize this film is Inarritu's directorial debut. A well-constructed non-linear story that unfolds effectively highlighting social-political narratives.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 22, 2021

A brutal but worthy motion picture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2021

It's a breath of fresh air in an industry more accustomed to older narrative and pictorial styles.

| Feb 25, 2020

Very few films create, as this one succeeds in doing, a fresh and individual sense of a complete world, and allow us to experience this sense as if it were our own.

| Aug 20, 2018

[Inarritu's] triumph - helped by a cast of unknown actors who more than meet the standards of Hollywood venismo - is to give so lurid a sequence of events the force of reality; and make a story of relentless bleakness, oddly uplifting.

| Jan 25, 2018

... an invigorating film filled with vivid performances, haunting scenes, and messy, intense emotions, a violent portrait of modern day Mexico City grounded in frustration, helplessness, and messy, intense emotions.

| Dec 16, 2017

Gripping but gory subtitled drama isn't for the squeamish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2017

Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu exert such control over the story that even a cute doggie disappearance develops into a toilet-trained take on "The Telltale Heart." Warts and all, "Amores Perros" is love, actually.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Dozens of shoddy imitators have done nothing to disguise the wit of its narrative construction.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 6, 2010

Solidly engaging, supersized 2000 Mexican drama.

| Feb 8, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2007

On screen, Gonzalez Inarritu's alarm registers loud and clear.

| Nov 1, 2007

... it is a hyperviolent movie against violence; a graphic portrayal of infidelity in the name of marriage; a tale of murderous sibling rivalry in the name of family.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 20, 2007

Amores Perros signals the bold, audacious, fiercely human and ultra-violent feature directorial debut of Inarritu, a gifted Mexican director bound to make a mark on international cinema.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 19, 2007

Gonzalez Inarritu's sinfully enjoyable epic roars in on a wave of blood, gunshots and dog barks.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 23, 2007

One of the most honored and most expertly articulated Mexican films of recent years.

| Apr 27, 2007

Recalling Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction - but edgier than both - this is a hell of a first film. For all its bonecrunching savagery, it's also a fundamentally moral work.

| Feb 9, 2006

It is that rarest of features that shows a deep understanding of people, truly cinematic storytelling technique and brilliantly choreographed fight and chase scenes.

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