What’s consistently striking about Epicentro isn’t its political project, but how it looks...

| Dec 1, 2022

As the waves crash by the shore near the film's end, it's not clear if Epicentro's first twenty minutes or so ... have had much impact beyond expository convenience.

| Jun 5, 2021

This film is like an insider's view of Cuba, and it consists mainly of street scenes in and around Havana, loosely strung along a theme relating to the Cuban War of Independence and the Spanish-American War.

| Original Score: B | Feb 14, 2021

Acting as his own cinematographer in Havana, Sauper ventures off the tourist track with his camera.

| Jan 22, 2021

Epicentro is an intimate, fluid, ethereal film while still being sharp edged in condemnation of the globalization and colonial history. It's one of the truly great documentaries of 2020.

| Oct 23, 2020

If one can't find utopia on the sunny beaches of Cuba, one might not find it elsewhere.

| Oct 21, 2020

As waves crash against the Malecón esplanade, Epicentro reminds us of the myths that we build our lives upon; some of us believe in the myth of building walls and some of us cry at the death of our mythical leaders.

| Sep 18, 2020

A brazenly experimental feature, Epicentro is a textured and provocative look at the trail left by a history of colonialism, both literal and more figuratively.

| Sep 10, 2020

Epicentro isn't so much a wide-ranging documentary as it is a compilation of random individuals in Cuba who share their thoughts for this movie. What they have to say is much more revealing about Cuba than filtered news or a political speech.

| Sep 10, 2020

The mood he strikes is discordant with the material-not a problem in and of itself, but indicative of how self-reflexivity can slip into noncommittal indulgence.

| Original Score: 7.4/10 | Sep 4, 2020

Sauper isn't trying to fool anyone, but he is a filmmaker, and that's how the medium works.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2020

An ambitious, multi-layered documentary, Epicentro... will reward you for sticking with it.

| Sep 3, 2020

From visual beauty to its cultural and artistic distinctions to sociopolitical challenges, the uneven film takes an affectionate approach toward its subjects.

| Aug 29, 2020

Alongside the 1964 classic "I am Cuba", this stands as one of the greatest documentaries ever made about Cuba and reinforces the need to end end the embargo.

| Aug 28, 2020

...regardless of [Sauper's] self-awareness, Epicentro is a really thought-provoking study of modern day Cuba and its history.

| Aug 28, 2020

At once mesmerizing and self-questioning.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 28, 2020

There's an alluringly observant, searching quality to Sauper's direction. He takes audiences on an enlightening journey

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2020

This lack of objectivity is blatant . . . and as part impressionistic work and part ethnography, Epicentro often turns counterintuitive into crucial.

| Original Score: B | Aug 27, 2020

Epicentro ... stands as a monumental tribute to a place deserving of better than it normally gets.

| Aug 27, 2020

Whether Sauper's travels delivered a cohesive movie this time is debatable, but what he does find is always interesting.

| Aug 27, 2020