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

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

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | 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

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

The cinematography solidifies the film’s status as a noir grappling with corruption and probing moral grey areas, while at the same time echoing visually the stark divisions between white and Indigenous people in Australian society.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2024

Fiercely political and starkly beautiful in a way that has become Ivan Sen’s signature, Limbo only further consolidates his position as one of Australia’s most important contemporary filmmakers.

| Sep 13, 2023

Limbo uses as its catalyst an event that’s both tragically familiar and catastrophically disruptive. It then portrays the aftermath with sensitivity, compassion and a restraint that enhances its impact.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2023

Limbo is a great role for Simon Baker’s creative renaissance, tapping into his thoughtful, quiet energy, his ability to show you a lot without telling you much. And Ivan Sen’s sensibilities for the same makes this a great marriage of actor and director.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2023

A quiet but powerful meditation on how far we have not come in this country.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2023

Limbo is perhaps his best film to date, a technically accomplished, richly evocative drama that explores, with the eye of an insider, the often tense relationships between Indigenous Australians and white Australians...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 18, 2023

An eerily meditative production with top-notch performances and a harshly beautiful monochrome veneer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2023

It’s a distinctive work, both visually – the stark black and white photography accentuates the uncanny, almost lunar pockmarks on this scarred terrain – and in terms of its intriguingly detached outback noir storytelling.

| Feb 24, 2023

This is outback noir — oblique, secretive and as hard-boiled as the ground is hard-baked — and Sen wears it well.

| Feb 24, 2023

A riveting, multilayered genre piece.

| Feb 23, 2023

It is a tough, muscular film with the grit of crime, but a heartbeat of compassion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2023