This fifth feature by the brilliant Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso is his first with professional actors and a period setting, yet it meshes thematically with his other work.

| Jun 11, 2015

Alonso sustains an atmosphere of otherworldly immanence in a vivid setting, with a style involving long takes with characters posed as if in tableaux vivants.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 11, 2015

Viewers who can accept a defiantly slow pace, a few loose plot threads and a directorial style that works by intimation, will be rewarded.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2015

If you applauded the genre-tweaking twists of Gus Van Sant's "Gerry" and Kelly Reichardt's "Meek's Cutoff," you may have a good time (or at least an interesting one) at acclaimed Argentine director Lisandro Alonso's latest puzzler, "Jauja."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 17, 2015

All in all, a quietly magical piece of cinema, a mind-bender of the subtlest kind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2015

For all its evocation of the 'classical' western, Jauja also, at moments, conjures a chilled-out Alejandro Jodorowsky -- less obviously surrealistic but no less provocative in its core propositions.

| Apr 10, 2015

Mortensen has just the right class of vacant charisma for such a gouged-out protagonist and Timo Salminen's photography bathes every image in surprising lights.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2015

When Inge elopes with a soldier, Dinesen searches across the unforgiving but beautifully shot landscape, in a sort of western that turns into a surreal exploration of his existential angst, then segues to his descendants in the present day.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2015

Intriguing, if opaque.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2015

Miraculous. Blithely does its own thing, but with staggering assurance and artistry.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 9, 2015

'Jauja' is a film to make you wonder.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2015

Challengingly spellbinding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2015

"Jauja" makes one cryptic leap too many at the end, but until then it evocatively confounds.

| Mar 26, 2015

Even if director Lisandro Alonso meanders a bit, he pulls a rabbit hole out of his hat in the end ...

| Original Score: A- | Mar 25, 2015

Alonso's audacious leaps of time, his incisive view of the wiles of combat and the rigors of survival, and his ingenious reflection of present-day splendors in past plunder lend the visually sumptuous experience a haunting depth.

| Mar 23, 2015

The performances mesh beautifully with the filmmaking, which is more keenly attuned to fluctuations in the natural world that all but a handful of modern motion pictures.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 20, 2015

I never once doubted that I was in the hands of a master filmmaker.

| Mar 20, 2015

The rounded-off corners of the almost-square frames evoke early movies and antique photographs, and there is wit and mischief in the way Mr. Alonso plays with the relationship between what we see, what we don't see and what we expect to see.

| Mar 19, 2015

The film is expansive, pushing the ideas that Alonso has probed in the past further than he has ever taken them.

| Mar 19, 2015

At its most powerful, Jauja suggests the surreal Western violence of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian in the way Alonso gradually folds the action into a waking nightmare.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 19, 2015