| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 28, 2003

So fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy, confused, and totally disorientated. Not to mention absolutely refreshed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2003

The casting of von Sydow ... is itself Intacto's luckiest stroke.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2003

Nothing if not hip, but its questions are more coffee-shop hypothetical than genuinely profound.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 21, 2003

I admired Intacto more than I liked it, for its ingenious construction and the way it keeps a certain chilly distance between its story and the dangers of popular entertainment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 21, 2003

A clever, original thriller that bows to no genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 20, 2003

Its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people's lives cross and change, buffeted by events seemingly out of their control, is intriguing, provocative stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2003

Intriguing and stylish.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2003

Mesmerizing art-noirish thriller.

Full Review | Jan 24, 2003

It's to be hoped that Fresnadillo, having gotten his boyhood experience out of his system, will marshal his impressive gifts to create stories of considerably less preposterous and insular appeal.

| Jan 24, 2003

It has Mamet's cool, philosopher's finesse, but none of Borges's fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 24, 2003

It is von Sydow who gives Intacto its gravity, resonance, soul.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 10, 2003

Even if you get lost in the labyrinth of the plot -- which is not just understandable but almost inevitable -- you will almost certainly enjoy yourself trying to make it all make some sort of cosmic sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2003

An intellectual exercise, but with not much intellect and too much exercise.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 3, 2003

Sleek and arty.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 3, 2003

Although Sam's concentration camp backstory flirts with tastelessness, Mr. Fresnadillo charges Intacto with enough well-visualized oddity and surrealism to keep it interesting.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 3, 2003

A sharp brainteaser of a film, a compelling mind game you compulsively play along with.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 25, 2002

The movie is ingenious fun. See it.

Full Review | Dec 19, 2002

Viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 13, 2002