The looping arrangement peeking into each character keeps curiosity high, yet its point-of-view is remarkably overcrowded with quandary that feels too manufactured for happenstance's sake.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2022

Anesthesia depicts a tugging wave of gentle ennui and explores it gingerly.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 4, 2020

A disappointing misfire...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 29, 2018

Anesthesia is the typical ensemble film of ensemble stories and characters that intersect at some point... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 5, 2017

Anesthesia is something of a mess, but it's the kind of sloppily slapped together film that keeps you looking on and paying attention in admiration of the fact of what works

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2017

Unfortunately, the script of Anesthesia supports the ballast of an excessive verbosity and the proposed subplots don't acquire a greater dramatic density. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 9, 2017

The relationship between everyday life and technology harassment is tackled in a predictable, bland and even foolish way, despite its good actors. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 24, 2017

Too often, it plays like a self-consciously high-minded riff on Crash.

| Nov 30, 2016

A bunch of important sentences always said by characters in a serious and lavish tone, who will inexorably be submerged in their worst hardships that the script capriciously chains, in causal rather than casual way. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 24, 2016

A film that, although is well acted, ends up being scattered, discursive, somewhat disoriented and never finishes articulating. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 24, 2016

A puzzling and uneven tonal mess.

| Original Score: D+ | Feb 24, 2016

What will numb our pain after meeting some of Anesthesia's dull characters?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 5, 2016

Its stories are too loosely spaced apart and its philosophy painfully abstract and interchangeable.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Feb 4, 2016

In cramming together so many interlocking stories of existential angst, the structure of this well-intentioned ensemble drama feels more forced than authentic.

| Jan 29, 2016

Is that all there is?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2016

The irony of Anesthesia is that, while it uses interconnectivity as a storytelling mechanism, the characters do not really connect.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2016

Stewart stands out because her one big scene seems so passionate and genuine. It's the only moment when "Anesthesia" seems to be working.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2016

A grand gesture going nowhere.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 28, 2016

A stellar cast of serious-minded players...fight a losing battle against the characters' overwritten dialogue and unlikely behavior.

| Jan 28, 2016

ake, drink, this is the thesis to my sketch drama: "The world has just become so inhuman. Everyone's plugged in, blindingly inarticulate, obsessed with money, their careers, stupidly, arrogantly content. I crave interaction, but you just can't any more."

| Jan 27, 2016