This Portugese oddity represents arthouse film-making taken to insanely inscrutable heights.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2016

The director has plenty of influences, Stanley Kubrick and Old Hollywood classicists such as John Ford among them. But his style is his own: exacting, but dreamlike.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 14, 2016

Best to let the film's mesmerising tableaux descend upon you in the dreamy darkness, then sift its haunting memories for precise meaning in the hours, days and weeks that follow.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2015

E even within the context of such unevenness, Costa's commitment to chronicling and implicitly dignifying the sufferings of the oppressed and the exploited provides Horse Money with a solid core.

| Sep 18, 2015

Horse Money is hermetic to the point of being baffling, but in its dream-like way it is atmospheric and intriguing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2015

I've watched Horse Money twice and I still don't have a clue what's going on.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 18, 2015

It's a film of people who begin and end their days by night, living and dying known and remembered by a precious few, displaying their beauty, their only inalienable property.

| Sep 18, 2015

One of the most impressive accomplishments of Costa's career.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 17, 2015

Visually striking, intellectually challenging and emotionally harrowing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2015

Often, there is a compressed intensity to Costa's poetry and sometimes just silence and inertia.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 17, 2015

As gorgeous and impenetrable as a dream.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 24, 2015

Audiences unfamiliar with Mr. Costa are likely to find the experience incomprehensible, but "Horse Money" offers a challenge worth meeting for viewers prepared to give it patience.

| Jul 23, 2015

If Horse Money is unmistakably a continuation of Costa's general line of inquiry, it also feels like a further refinement of his technique, from its comparatively taut running time to the shadowy expressiveness of the HD imagery.

| Jul 22, 2015

The particulars of what's happening are never clear, but what matters always is: Costa again steeps us in a crumbling world, in anger and loss, in the alienation of an impoverished and marginalized life.

| Jul 21, 2015

The film's difficult approach allows for a singularly vivid expression of dementia.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2015

Horse Money is an inspired reminder that politically rooted cinema needn't just inhabit the realm of the strictly real; it can have an unconscious too, a dream dimension haunted by ghosts.

| Jul 16, 2015

Painterly and meditative in Costa's singular manner, this 2014 feature reconfigures traumatic episodes, both personal and historical, into a waking dream.

| Mar 19, 2015

It's the multitude of miniature narratives that gives Pedro Costa's film its abiding, silent outrage.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2014

The most overtly surreal of Costa's Fontainhas films.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 11, 2014