With bold and exciting artistic choices, first-time director Lucio Castro creates a steamy mystery about two men who meet on the streets of Barcelona.

| Dec 7, 2022

Castro asks some hard questions for the audience to ponder about those brief moments that could have become real things, real relationships, had we the maturity to allow it for ourselves.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

It is the lemniscate toppled over, the infinite seen sideways -- the top and the bottom, here in all its explicit double entendre, reciprocated

| Jan 14, 2022

The characters are likable and the film is heavy on the eroticism, but with a script light on dialogue and a hyper-realistic style we end up only partially caring for its subjects.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2021

Takes Weekend's lusty meet-up, combines it with Call Me By Your Name and Monsoon's passion abroad, and turns it into an evocative contemplation of love, sex, connection, choices, and roads both taken and forsaken.

| Feb 22, 2021

Pretty boring.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2021

Takes an otherwise straightforward narrative and morphs it into something far more emotionally evocative.

| Dec 26, 2020

A twisty head trip is underscored by the ambiguity of what could have been.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2020

What gives the film its kick - other than some judicious dancing to A Flock of Seagulls - is Castro's way with multiple, co-existent realities, in which life paths can switch in a flash and decades vanish in the blink of cinema's eye.

| Dec 25, 2020

As it begins to split in different directions, it remains as uncannily real as a vivid dream, aided by the almost documentary naturalism of the two leads

| Dec 17, 2020

End of the Century resists any precious overtures at universality in a reach for specificity that overwhelms and in that specificity feels more moving than its initial casualness might suggest.

| Aug 2, 2020

Sadly, End of the Century lacks the emotional punch that would've allowed its messaging to shine through in a big way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 11, 2020

A painful reflection on maturity condemned to the cruel company of memories. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 13, 2020

A simple story told in beautiful style by writer/director Lucio Castro, it's a beguiling drama that skillfully blends the past and present to craft its narrative in fascinating fashion.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 31, 2020

Like 'Sliding Doors' with added subtlety and soul, this swooning love story spins the idea of 'what if?' into something deeply romantic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2020

This is lyrical, romantic, anxious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2020

There's almost a serene, ghostly air to End of the Century that manipulates time, memory and romance, artfully spinning a simple story into something far more evocative.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 20, 2020

The film is like finding one of Proust's madeleines tucked inside a short story by Borges, where it keeps vanishing and reappearing.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 20, 2020

It balances what is with what might have been and what could still be, and, although the result is maybe a bit less substantial than Castro intended, there is a certain literary elegance in the way he sketches it out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2020

Starting from banal observations of a solitary holiday, it builds into a sexy, beguiling reflection on love and the endless possibilities that flow from one meaningful connection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2020