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

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

At 84, the Polish director is doing some of his finest work, and “EO” is a highlight in a long, bumpy, but rich career.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 24, 2023

Skolimowski's intentions, however, are sometimes confused, as he allocates a personal "point of view" camera shot to Eo, and later gives the same perspective to a rolling football and a robotic dog. Still, the imagery is breathtaking.

| Feb 15, 2023

What is clear is that this donkey’s-eye view of the world sees mankind in all its madness; the laughter and the cruelty; the kindness and the killing (it’s not just animals who suffer sudden death); the love and the hatred intertwined.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2023

Despite the claustrophobic setting, Diop crafts an evocative modern retelling of Medea, with detailed notes on femininity, immigration and race.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 3, 2023

a unique mix of the absurd and the profound. You couldn’t call the piece sentimental, but it is occasionally hard not to make it thus in your own head.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 3, 2023

Bizarre, beautiful, moving and playful, this is an oddity to cherish, with depths that only reveal themselves – entirely aptly – on the hoof.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2023

... We are teased by the idea that we might grasp what EO’s gaze is saying. Perhaps the truth is about the eye of the beholder. What kind of ass, the movie asks, believes they can read a donkey’s mind?

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 2, 2023

A beguiling and often brutal look at the life of a donkey, this hijacks your heart, your mind, your ears and your eyes from start to finish.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 30, 2023

Polish arthouse veteran Jerzy Skolimowski, who has scratched out such dark depictions of the human soul as 1970’s psychosexual shocker Deep End, hasn’t lost his edge down the years. He directs with endless compassion but zero sentimentality.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 24, 2023

The beasts give EO an authenticity beyond human acting, without the trappings of rational meaning. Behind the veil of Skolimowski’s bravura technique, life simply is.

| Jan 3, 2023

The majesty of this film comes from how the director and his team use an often surreal mix of music, editing, sound, and image to allow the viewer to experience the world as we assume EO does.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 23, 2022

Jerzy Skolimowski chooses an unassuming, gentle, and watchful donkey to experience the multifaceted spectrum of life, adorning Eo with more personality than any Disney special.

| Dec 17, 2022

Nearly everything else in Eo is flawlessly conceived and executed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 14, 2022

Clear-eyed and full of subtle feeling and empathy without solemnity, this is co-writer and director Jerzy Skolimowski’s first feature in seven years. It’s also very good.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 9, 2022

Pure, tender cinema is rare nowadays, but EO delivers.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2022

...you’ll also think deeply about matters of sentience and sentimentality, and—if you’re anything like me—thank Skolimowski for knowing exactly how and when to end his movie, if not for EO’s sake, then for ours...

| Dec 8, 2022

It's clever, but not particularly original.

| Dec 6, 2022

The world we share with EO is cold and cruel, which doesn’t mean we have to be.

| Dec 2, 2022