Almost every single second of Limbo is completely devoid of anything other than a static delivery that goes no deeper than the thinnest surface.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2024

The atmosphere and desolate quietness of Limbo is what keeps it interesting despite the plot following several predictable steps and anticlimactic turns.

| Jun 2, 2024

This terrific Australian noir, where the setting is the story, is a powerful outing steeped in shame.

| Original Score: A | May 17, 2024

Ivan Sen’s sometimes hallucinatory piece edges into poetry, visions, and sleep as a unique and intriguing entry into the noir genre.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 17, 2024

I found it more pretentious than impressive...

| May 6, 2024

A mystery that uses the history of Australia as its framework and the human soul as its scope. We are confronted with past sins that cannot be undone, pain that can’t be removed, and are left to consider how best to move forward with grace and humanity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 3, 2024

The spellbinding and atmospheric crime drama Limbo moves at a pace that might be too slow for some viewers. But beneath this unhurried tone are simmering tensions and resentments over racism and generational trauma.

| Apr 15, 2024

The B&W photography feels essential to realizing the bleakness and distrust inherent in this superb neo noir.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 5, 2024

Filmed in gorgeous black and white, Sen’s movie traces the scars of colonization and how they still ache, even after a place is chewed up, spit out and forgotten.

| Mar 28, 2024

The narrative invariably feels like merely a framework for Sen’s carefully cultivated black-and-white mood, immersing us in a parched, faded world of loss, anger and hiding.

| Mar 25, 2024

There's a beautiful bleakness to it.

| Mar 23, 2024

It's a strong movie. There are very few movies that I've seen from Australia that play this story up.

| Mar 23, 2024

Capturing its stark landscapes through evocative black-and-white visuals, this deliberately paced Australian thriller rewards patience with rich thematic texture beneath its procedural surface.

| Mar 23, 2024

An out-of-town cop and an Indigenous family lift their cold case and themselves out of limbo in Australian moonscape of black-and-white. Sen's striking cinematography matches characters’ physical and emotional isolation in a story inspired by his family.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 22, 2024

“Limbo” is entirely engrossing as it brings its discomfiting points home.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 22, 2024

Sen's movie winds up being more superficial than the depth of ideas it clearly wants to examine.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2024

[Sen's] approach to photographing vast outback landscapes has always been singular, but Limbo is surely his most technically accomplished work.

| Mar 22, 2024

The film is spare, sunbleached and serious in its study of people long neglected and abused. Yet the drama is thin, and the mystery halfhearted. Whatever desert sand the movie kicks up soon settles down again.

| Mar 21, 2024

Limbo is a flinty Outback noir that revels in smashing its hard-edged characters against one another.

| Original Score: 7.2/10 | Mar 21, 2024

Sen, who also handled both the black-and-white cinematography and the editing, has a terrific eye for shot composition and sets a deliberate pace that feels implacable rather than merely slow.

| Mar 21, 2024