Carancho is a bold, risky, extreme, difficult film, made without fear, without marketing calculations and, above all, without concessions of any kind. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2023

Carancho has what movies need: a compelling story, a lot of suspense, a great director, and two actors that devour the screen. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 31, 2023

Comparisons between Martin Scorsese's crackling brand of fraught, moralistic cinema and that of Trapero's doesn't feel at all far-fetched.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2020

Visually and viscerally, the film makes for a chilling and sobering 107 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

[Ricardo] Darín's performance is sleek and truly moving. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2018

Trapero is a force, as both a director and a producer, in Argentina's exploding though financially strapped film industry.

| Oct 6, 2015

The film's plotting is at times ragged and muffled, though this might be intentional, a way of suggesting the endless ramifications of the endemic corruption. The performances, however, have depth and resonance.

| Mar 4, 2012

What starts as a slow-burning series of minor dramas slips into a high-octane gear in the final act.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2012

Some movies are described as explosive: this is positively eardrum-perforating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2012

The statistic that 8,000 Argentinians die in traffic accidents every year gives his film a context, but Trapero didn't need to work quite so hard to prove it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2012

The film's bitterness of vision may owe as much to style as to content: this is not King Lear, it does not go deep. But a vision of sorts it is, harsh and haunting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2012

Bruising, moving and utterly compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2012

An absorbing if flawed thriller set in Buenos Aires...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2012

... A film where the question of how far someone can stray before they’re lost forever isn’t just a matter of narrative trickery but a genuinely soulful, gnawingly tense moral challenge.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2012

It's relatively effective as a thriller, but rarely welcomes the viewer into its world of legalities and despair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2012

[A] grimly satisfying noir...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2012

Scenes spark then fade, until the sinuous climax arrives with collision force.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2012

The desolate Edward Hopper nightscapes provide an effective context...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2012

The Argentinean actor Ricardo Darín (The Secret in Their Eyes) has an almost Bogart-like gift for playing world-weary rotters with a core of nobility.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

...this is not just about a stormy romance. It also deals with personal integrity, or lack there of, corruption within the Argentine insurance industry and the violence that it spawns.

| Original Score: B | Apr 30, 2011