Skolimowski’s Cannes Jury Prize winner is an outlandish tale with an unhappy ending packed with a surrealist twist that does not water down the Polish director’s cri de coeur on behalf of mistreated animals

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2025

An extremely difficult film to watch at times but one that packs one hell of a punch with its message. Be prepared you will cry but the journey is worth it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 16, 2023

Eo is a very special treat for anyone who really cares about how personal, idiosyncratic and unexpected a visit to the cinema can still be.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 8, 2023

[Uses] a fresh, empathetic approach that, even in its obvious dramatic liberties, makes us meditate on both the depth of experience that may be unfolding in our animal neighbors and our role in shaping it.

| Sep 23, 2023

The result is disconcerting, lysergic, surreal, but in several passages fascinating. A genuine beast. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2023

EO occupies a rare liminal space between bitter realism and stark surrealism, becoming a truly daring, dynamic project that repeatedly folds onto itself, manifesting as a completely different type of work as it continues.

| Aug 6, 2023

The love for Au Hasard Balthazar has paved the way for Skolimowski to craft EO, but that same adoration makes it falter.

| Original Score: C | Jul 29, 2023

Like a poem, both EO the movie and EO the donkey have their own ineffable language.

| Jul 26, 2023

EO is a stark and oftentimes angry look at humanity’s impact on the natural world. More than the human characters’ treatment of EO, it’s the film’s duality of man-made spaces vs. the open grasslands of nature.

| Jul 24, 2023

The effect is otherworldly, as is the entirety of this haunting and touching film as it peers at life so often ignored, undervalued and exploited on this very earth.

| Jul 22, 2023

A travelogue starring a donkey who experiences the good, the bad, and the beautiful in our world

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 28, 2023

EO is an understated stunner... an outside-the-square gem that sends us on a singularly captivating odyssey with visionary images and perceptive direction, a prime example of the type of non-mainstream film that gives arthouse cinema a good name.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2023

Mychal Dymek’s superb cinematography lends distinction to the film and, combined with the director’s strikingly original visual concepts, including some scenes representing the donkey’s eye view, makes for a visually impressive experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2023

Animal adventure as psychedelic dream, EO is that rarest of things: a narrative film that actively decentres the human perspective in pursuit of a new way of seeing.

| Apr 13, 2023

This portrait of an animal encountering the best and the worst the world of men can offer, is a beautiful, haunting and special experience

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 12, 2023

If you watched The Banshees of Inisherin and, like most of the world, fell in love with Jenny the donkey and went on an emotional journey with her, well this is your next fix of beautiful trauma.

| Apr 10, 2023

EO is a categorically complete and complex film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 7, 2023

Skolimowski implies it’s the fate of animals to be misunderstood, to be brutalised by some and patronised by others.

| Apr 7, 2023

The film, by Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski, is both moving and puzzling, a story about an innocent done in a style that doesn’t always have the same innocence.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 6, 2023

a deeply moving, beautifully wrought, and keenly reflective film that finds new avenues of dramatization of, and insight into, all the good and bad that humanity has to offer

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2023