In her role, Vega is both playful and sad, her eyes oozing emotion.

| Dec 8, 2021

Peckinpah saddles his themes with so many sordid sideshows and so many privative and private obsessions that, in the end, it is about nothing so much as the strange, special world of Peckinpah's own psyche.

| Nov 2, 2021

A bleak and beautiful masterpiece about starting low and going lower.

| Mar 18, 2021

It's distinguished by some truly original moments but also marred by a ramshackle narrative that leans a bit too heavily on regurgitated themes and stylistic flourishes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2021

The casualties are tremendous, the disintegration of sanity significant, and the satisfaction bizarrely high.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 27, 2020

It's a stunning, vital, visceral piece of work by a man who is obviously fearless when it comes to baring his soul in public.

| Dec 12, 2019

The last scenes of the film make it outlandish due to an excessive baroque style. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 18, 2019

A ferocious howl of a movie, the artistic equivalent of throwing your hands in the air and asking if anything is worth it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

As one who touted and defended The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs, I am particularly disheartened.

| Feb 10, 2019

It plays like a pulp noir thriller by way of a road movie of the damned, marinated in mescal and left to rot in the desert sun.

| Mar 30, 2017

while Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is certainly a memento mori, replete with intimations of its characters' corporeal nature and mortality, it is also, ultimately, a bizarre buddy pic

| Jan 23, 2017

It plays like a pulp noir thriller by way of a road movie of the damned, marinated in mescal and left to rot in the desert sun.

| Apr 3, 2014

Intense gruesome crime melodrama that's set in modern Mexico.

| Original Score: B | Apr 12, 2013

For Peckinpah, nothing is so ennobling as to face death in Mexico for the right reason.

| May 5, 2010

Fermented in a tragic romanticism placed firmly in a no-man's land between liberation and capitalism, Sam Peckinpah's 1974 thriller is a film that sticks in your mind's eye like a lingering sun spot.

| Original Score: A+ | Jun 2, 2009

Em seu filme mais pessoal, Peckinpah cria um anti-herói trágico que, através de cotidiano repleto de crueza e miséria, alcança uma improvável redenção através de suas ações e intenções tortuosas.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2008

It stands as one of Peckinpah's more daring films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 30, 2006

Fermented in a tragic romanticism placed firmly in a no-man's land between liberation and capitalism, Sam Peckinpah's 1974 thriller is a film that sticks in your mind's eye like a lingering sun spot.

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2005

Oates' antihero is among the loneliest men in the cinema, and one of its greatest performances.

| Jun 6, 2005