Martel’s film is an absolute masterpiece in visual symbolism and deserves to be seen on that basis alone.

| Aug 7, 2023

Martel's more political narrative brings a conventional plot to her normally plotless films. A thought-provoking look at a social-political dynamic that isn't exclusive to just one country. A fantastic visual-audio storytelling approach.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2022

[A] deceptively plotless, taut, and intricate 89 minutes. This is to the credit of Martel and lead actress María Onetto, who is devastating as dentist Verónica.

| Dec 30, 2020

Where other arthouse filmmakers use the slow aesthetic to draw out the glaringly obvious metaphors and subtexts of their narratives, Martel's style is lucid and transcendent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2020

A nice trip into a hazy world where truth is relative and quite beautiful at the same time.

| Apr 9, 2019

Keeping the viewer almost as much in the dark as the heroine, this 2008 puzzler from the talented Lucrecia Martel (Zama) is a challenge worth taking up.

| Oct 5, 2018

Don't bring a guilty conscience to a viewing of The Headless Woman.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 13, 2017

The Headless Woman is the closest thing to a genre film that has done Martel and, at the same time, is also the most twisted of all his films. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 1, 2016

Ms. Martel here firmly establishes her mastery by exacting - amid a dream-like fog - suspense, horror, humor and sympathy from a protagonist who is so emotionally vacant and detached from the world.

| Oct 7, 2015

An unsettling sense of guilt and dread runs through this elliptical film that proves Martel has much improved from The Holy Girl.

| Aug 2, 2015

An astounding portrait of a person entirely out of sync with her own existence.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

If Hitchcock and Antonioni ever had an interest in class guilt, you'd have Martel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 29, 2010

It's a heady study of a successful woman in a patriarchal society.

| Original Score: A | Apr 25, 2010

...a shimmering mystery of the human mind wrapped inside racial, class and gender issues.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 14, 2010

A strange and absorbing psycho-drama exploring class division and the suppression of guilt among Argentina's privileged classes.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 22, 2010

Slow-paced and self-indulgent in places but a bravely intense use of camera work to explore the internal psychology of the characters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2010

In what could be one of the greatest films ever made about the emotional realities of a damaged mind, this giddily disorientating latest from Lucrecia Martel is a work of frenzied genius.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 19, 2010

The pacing is so leaden, and the direction so heavy-handed, that it's fundamentally hard to care.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2010

A masterly, disturbing and deeply mysterious film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 19, 2010