His [Iñárritu’] images are full of sound of fury, signifying nothing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Existentialism cloaks Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s fascinating, intoxicating, and visually resplendent Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2024

An imaginative, visual feast.

| Jul 21, 2024

This is a tale that oozes Iñárritu’s personality and vigor, and is totally stronger for it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 17, 2024

Iñárritu creates a world, in typical Iñárritu fashion, to illuminate the constant transitional state (the in-between) in so many of our lives.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 23, 2024

Through a story about a journalist-turned-documentary filmmaker, Alejandro Iñárritu blurs the line between fact and fiction to create a surreal epic that feels like a fever dream.

| Nov 16, 2023

It’s an attempt to dig deeper into the themes that form a shallow collection of thoughts that don’t provide clarity and fail to communicate consistently.

| Sep 8, 2023

Bardo works best when it focuses on the dynamics between father, mother, and children regarding immigration and how this drastic life change impacts each member of the family nucleus.

| Original Score: B | Jul 25, 2023

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths is Alejandro González Iñárritu’s best and most emotionally moving feature since his directorial debut.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 25, 2023

Iñárritu builds it as a dramatic comedy in a surreal key that interrogates the director's dilemmas as an artist in an unrecognizable Mexican society, but whose core, regularly, falls down a self-indulgent, tiring and empty route. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 2, 2023

But it’s only an experimental film if you are rich, and the reality he criticizes is the reality of other rich people not as self-consciously artistic as he is...

| Mar 16, 2023

Iñárritu is very capable – one might even say brilliant – but has no idea how to restrain himself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2023

Disjointed and divisive, Bardo challenges its viewers to make sense of it.

| Mar 9, 2023

Alejandro G Iñárritu's contemplative, surrealistic vision of life and death, though expertly shot by Darius Khondji, turns out to be a heavy-handed misfire.

| Jan 31, 2023

Some say this movie is a series of senseless scenes, but I think there is a lot of truth in it, and a lot of those scenes are very impressive and imaginative. This is a well-acted, thought-provoking movie about the nature of human existence.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 27, 2023

Like Fellini’s 8-1/2 or Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, NY, it’s a cinematic, magic-realist autobiography rooted as much in dreams and hopes and media creations as reality. It’s also the first time he’s really shown a sense of humor about himself

| Jan 13, 2023

Yet another attempt to emulate Federico Fellini’s 1963 “8½"...a film rich with hypnotic images but groaning under the weight of its own self-importance.

| Original Score: C | Jan 12, 2023

Iñárritu offers a visually impressive film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 70/100 | Jan 9, 2023

This is a falsely humble introspective... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 9, 2023

The sequences depicting the violence of modern-day Mexico are magnificent. Bardo is a 174-minute recitative poem that rises to the level of such classics as Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba and Tarkovsky’s Mirror.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 27, 2022