The lesser you know about this completely bonkers, bloody movie about survival versus sadism the better.

| Aug 27, 2024

Its themes are universal, and anyone who’s seen the videos of rioters storming the congressional halls on January 6th will find some of Bacurau’s antagonists eerily familiar.

| Jul 24, 2023

Relishing in its ability to wrong foot and thrill right to its final moments, it s an unashamedly cinematic experience, with its makers playing in a sandbox of tropes and expectations, subverting them to put forward a radical and wholly essential message.

| Jun 5, 2023

This slice of Grindhouse is guaranteed to push everyone to their limits. Just as the residents resort to psychedelics to face the incoming threat, audiences visiting Bacurau will experience one hell of a trip.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2022

The result screams Western, sci-fi paranoia, and political outrage in the same breath.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 21, 2022

The Brazilian tale eviscerates injustice while celebrating coming together. Pandemic perfection.

| Nov 8, 2021

It's the cinematic equivalent of a rollercoaster ride - one that you want to experience again as soon as possible.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 1, 2021

Glorious, odd, and way off the beaten path. One of the best films of the year.

| Sep 13, 2021

...a lightning bolt right into the middle of the anxiety over Brazil's Bolsonaro regime, and with the burning of the Amazon rainforest and ensuing COVID-19 horrors, it hasn't lost a bit of its visceral immediacy.

| Sep 10, 2021

It is, quite simply, the sort of movie we'll look back on from the future -- assuming there is a future -- and say, "Yup, that got it just right..."

| Original Score: A | Jul 2, 2021

It's a curious film that defies categorisation, opening quietly before descending into a cacophony of cathartic bloodletting by the chaotic finale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2021

Bacurau forces the American viewer to think about the entwined histories of enslavement, Indigenous massacre and displacement, and stolen labor that unite the Americas in a shared colonial past.

| Apr 19, 2021

Bacurau has one element that is lacking from films lately, originality. The combination of genres is definitely a hit, but it could've easily become a miss if not for the correct direction and enjoyable touches of violence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 1, 2021

A politicized thriller in which bloodthirsty recreation represents an acute form of racist hubris and colonialist exploitation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 24, 2021

Bacurau is a vibrant genre-blending masterpiece of cinematic form.

| Feb 24, 2021

This film establishes interesting characters and is well acted. While the plot did not make a lot of sense to me, it does work on the level of being a satisfying action and morality tale.

| Original Score: B | Feb 4, 2021

Solidly constructed as an allegory about the power that represses the weak. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

It's part anti-colonialist satire, part gonzo Western, and one crazy ride.

| Jan 27, 2021

I don't want to spoil a second of Bacurau, but it's one of the best filmic distillations of that impending 21st-century sense of doom, a concentrated vision of the apocalypse that somehow manages to strike a hopeful note.

| Jan 27, 2021

What begins as a portrait of a remote village in Brazil gets increasingly dark as the lens is pulled back and the plot becomes increasingly gonzo...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2020