Whether you’re Romanian, American or anything else, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is the most recognizably of-the-moment film you’re likely to see all year.

| Feb 1, 2025

Es fascinante el dialogo que establece en pantalla con la película de los años 70 protagonizada también por un personaje llamado Ángela que se gana la vida conduciendo: han pasado décadas y parece que nada ha cambiado.

| Jan 28, 2025

Radu Jude's latest is a cross between a millennial home video, Kevin Smith's stoner comedy 'Clerks' and something by Jean-Luc Godard.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2024

A sardonically black political comedy that’s right out of left field, powered by witty takes on hot topics, and a killer performance by Ilinca Manolache, without whom the movie could not be.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 9, 2024

A brutal and thoughtful critique of how capitalism destroys lives and bodies and then forces us to become complicit in the destruction of others...[Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World] is hugely inventive film as only Jude can deliver.

| Oct 5, 2024

There is so much in this film, which is open to anything. In its 163 minutes, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World encompasses both a silent color sequence comprised of 115 shots of roadside crosses and an unbroken, thirty-five-minute take...

| Sep 16, 2024

Radu Jude’s latest satire, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, is as explosive as you’d think, but it will still consistently surprise and subvert all preconceptions.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Don't let the art-house aesthetics and nearly three-hour running time put you off: This is what a killer comedy looks like in 2024.

| Jul 23, 2024

The truth about our contemporary work system. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2024

Jude evokes the social realism of Jim Jarmusch and Jean-Luc Godard - creative in form, tenacious in the storytelling - and infuses a caustic humor that, cutting sharper than a knife, is often quite delicious.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 8, 2024

Radu Jude elongates and miniaturizes his questing, savage worldview to antagonizing, mesmerizing effect... exasperating and thril.ing canvas... Be astonished. Expect much. I felt alive.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

...a bitter pill chased by the world’s smallest spoon of sugar.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 3, 2024

Make no mistake: This film is filled with the festering anger that comes from being on the business end of economic inequality, and we see without explanation how Bobiţa is both mirror and machete.

| Jun 30, 2024

Romanian auteur Radu Jude ... delivers a meticulously crafted, stream-of-consciousness narrative that encapsulates the socio-political zeitgeist of latter day capitalism tinged with fascist currents.

| May 23, 2024

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World other than a corrosively funny anti-capitalist statement on today’s poor working conditions.

| Original Score: A- | May 4, 2024

Nearly three hours long and doing many things at once, a film like this will test some people’s patience, but I was delighted by it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 26, 2024

As excruciating an autopsy of the state of truth and our commensurate lack of faith in objective documents as any I’ve ever seen...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 19, 2024

Jude can barely control his ain’t-I-a-stinker glee. Yet it all works, with its many preoccupations, culminating in an epic, wild ride whose presumed destination is hell itself.

| Apr 18, 2024

Romanian director Radu Jude’s rude TikTok-flavoured satire of social media and the gig economy flips the bird to the contemporary gods of technology and the marketplace.

| Original Score: A | Apr 18, 2024

...a distinctive, in-your-face talent, uninterested in appeasing the audience...

| Apr 16, 2024