Deadpan humour does arise out of simple edits, such as a close-up of [Laurentiu] Ginghina talking that cuts to a mid-shot which reveals he has been brandishing a pointer and standing in front of a whiteboard the whole time.

| May 6, 2020

The 70-minute running time passes like a brisk dream during a slightly delirious nap.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2020

A special film about the beautiful game, and so much more.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2020

Of all the Romanian New Wave filmmakers, Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) has the best sense of humor; his sweet-and-sour approach balances a stingingly satirical view of institutions with a warm acceptance of kooky individuals.

| Mar 11, 2020

It's unclear whether "Infinite Football" is more tragedy or comedy, and in that lack of clarity lies something like wonderment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2019

This relatively short film contains worlds.

| Nov 9, 2018

Porumboiu reminds you with simplicity that Infinite Football is working within the poetry of a portrait, albeit one of many warming, droll moments.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 9, 2018

This is rich material, sharply developed. It's also touchingly optimistic about man's capacity for incremental change.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 6, 2018

It's one of the most original and visionary documentary films to have emerged recently...

| Apr 29, 2018

Corneliu Porumboiu resists spelling anything out but the bare essentials, instead continuing his project of inviting viewers to closely parse the acerbic day-to-day banalities of post-Ceausescu Romania.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 1, 2018

It's easy to read parallels between the nation's troubled experience of authoritarianism and Ginghină's obsessive pursuit of a perfectly ordered yet perfectly liberated game of soccer.

| Feb 21, 2018

Infinite Football has moments of nicely deadpan humor and some deft little touches of insight along the way courtesy of Porumboiu's offbeat protagonist; but major league it certainly is not.

| Feb 17, 2018

The premise may sound dry on paper, but Porumboiu's execution renders it irresistible.

| Feb 16, 2018

Infinite Football is an austere 70-minute experience, but the eccentric idealism of Laurențiu Ginghină lingers in the mind.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2018