It doesn't reach such giddy heights, as the veil of naturalism remains, drawing dark, absurd humour out of straightforwardly grim situations, reaching a particular NSFW peak...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2024

This is a movie that will stay with audiences for a very long time...

| Mar 24, 2021

Rowe's debut film is a powerful and wrenching experience distinguished by an uncomfortable emotional veracity that is nearly impossible to turn away from.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2019

A piece of vile misogynist trash.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 5, 2018

With nothing to offset the persistent minimalism, we're left with a film that does too much of what it's doing and not enough of anything else.

| Oct 25, 2011

Nothing about Leap Year plays out exactly like you expect, and Rowe prefers to send you home with enigmatic questions instead of clear-cut answers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2011

"Leap Year" might be too much for some audiences, but it is a potent and surprising work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2011

... A satisfying psychosexual drama, even-handed in its criticism of both bucolic and metropolitan society.

| Jun 30, 2011

Del Carmen's sort of the shadow version of Anna Magnani. Emotionally frail, slumbering, and nearly inarticulate, yet hungry, seething, and Earth-Motherish. A powerful performance in one of the most explicit and shocking films of the past several years.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 24, 2011

It's a gripping, mysterious use of no-budget cinema at its finest, and an intimate character study with surprising emotional power.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2011

To Rowe's credit, this isn't just a movie about sex. It's a compassionate study of human loneliness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2011

A haunting portrait of loneliness in its starkest state.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2011

It's not because of the amount of sex and nudity that the word "daring" comes to mind in describing Mnica del Carmen's performance, a combination of subtle vulnerability and abandonment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2011

Shocks only with its candor and complete lack of dramatic manipulation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2011

quiet, heartbreaking

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 23, 2011

Leap Year lets actions speak louder than words, and the actions here are shockingly explicit.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 23, 2011

Like peanut butter and chocolate or Catholicism and guilt, few things go together better than sex and violence...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2011

There are trifling signs of freshmanship, but also a steady observant eye, and in the end Leap Year bears heartbreaking witness to hopeless depression, isolation, and the failure of sex as few movies ever have.

| Jun 21, 2011

Something wicked this way comes in Michael Rowe's Leap Year, a character study of outstanding subtlety and fierce aesthetic exactitude.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2011

From Mexico, this bold and yet subtle film is so bracingly realistic that at times we begin worrying about the central actress.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 2, 2010