This satisfyingly strange film really has it all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2020

The filmmakers have a grand habit of stealing from others and making it their own.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2018

A moving and unexpected love story, a werewolf film with inescapable political bite, and - perhaps most of all - one of the most vivid, memorable and original treatments of the trials, challenges and joys of motherhood itself.

| Aug 27, 2018

Yet while it's refreshing to see teen lycanthropy handled as something other than a metaphor for sexual awakening, Good Manners dawdles on its way to a surprisingly predictable and unearned resolution.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 23, 2018

"Good Manners" is a haunting tale of love - and the burdens that come with it.

| Aug 17, 2018

The tone grows increasingly delicate and sweet; in fact the film ends up feeling like a fairy tale.

| Aug 14, 2018

The film is a rebellion of surfaces that never quite reaches, or emanates from, the underpinning roots of its fable.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 27, 2018

Swerving from predictable to confounding, dreamy to demented, artful to awkward, this genre-twisting hybrid from Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra links art house and slaughterhouse with unexpected success.

| Jul 26, 2018

A heady blend of heightened reality and grounded fantasy...

| Jul 25, 2018

There are moments to treasure throughout, from lovely out-of-nowhere musical numbers to the beautiful hand-drawn stills that depict a key flashback.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 25, 2018

...an unnerving werewolf tale that explores themes of motherhood and otherness, sometimes suggesting a retelling of Frankenstein. But with a werewolf. Yet for all the blood and gore, this is a quiet, gentle story...

| Oct 10, 2017

Genre defying and genuinely unexpected, this intriguing urban fairytale takes the mythology of the werewolf story and uses it as a prism through which to view contemporary Brazilian society.

| Oct 8, 2017

"Good Manners" is an ambitious work not only in scope but design, influenced by Jacques Tourneur's psychological horror noirs.

| Aug 16, 2017

A hybrid of art-house and genre cinema, combining sharp social commentary with grand guignol fantasy.

| Aug 9, 2017