It's not a perfect film by any means, but it certainly succeeds quite well in telling its tale with enough charm and gore to keep thing interesting.

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2007

Even though we spend the entire film underground, Hungary has never looked more buoyant.

| Mar 1, 2007

Though the film is crowd-pleasing enjoyable, it never fully brings in enough light to its underground setting to completely satisfy as a fully realized work.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 3, 2005

[A] nimble dark comedy.

Full Review | Aug 4, 2005

This is supremely confident filmmaking for a newcomer, and should give Antal a one-way ticket to bigger things.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 28, 2005

Antal proudly wears Tarantino influences, lingering in humorous conversations that race out on tangents, adding flavor to characters while also subtly developing themes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2005

Antal has a bright future.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2005

Os personagens e o prprio conceito do filme so interessantes, mas o fraco roteiro acaba desperdiando o potencial do projeto e a boa direo do estreante Antal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 9, 2005

You don't need a deep, dark forest to tell an unsettling fable about the struggle for freedom or the battles waged between the shadows and the things that glow.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2005

The constant gear-changing -- or tonal shifts -- may put some audience members off a bit. But it also has style to burn, and most of the cast is appealing, especially the brooding Csanyi, and Balla, whose sunny presence brightens up the dark proceedings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2005

Writer-director Nimrod Antal shifts from breakneck action to thoughtful romance ..., as he reveals a colorful and chaotic underground.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2005

As a group of episodes, the movie keeps our interest not by linear plot, but by finely drawn characterizations.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2005

Debut writer-director Nimrd Antal uses the anti-hero Bulcs (Sndor Csnyi) as an effective symbol of repressed rebellion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2005

You might wonder at the end what happened to the plot, but the mood, characters and look are so striking that you really won't miss it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 16, 2005

Kontroll throws beaucoup intriguing mysteries at us, but the solutions aren't worth the trip.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 9, 2005

[S]elf-assured, totally enrapturing... makes you realize how few directors achieve such a necessary confidence in their own hocus pocus...

| Jun 6, 2005

Were it not for the subtitles, it would be virtually guaranteed instant cult status

Full Review | May 28, 2005

Antal keenly juggles black comedy, character types and genre styles, making the most of the weird angles and inherent dark creepiness of his chosen backdrop.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2005

Singular in its location and singular in mood.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2005