Once again, here's filmmaking bearing witness to what may happen, has happened, or will happen, in a totalizing cinematographic experience that resonates long after viewing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 15, 2024

Instead of being suggestive and sticking to entertainment, this film is dark and is more focused on telling the truth and showing it all.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 29, 2024

By the time Franco joins together strands that the audience will most likely have seen coming, New Order grinds to a halt.

| Feb 7, 2024

There are no sympathetic or redeeming characters, the politics is very muddled and any message it wishes to convey is drowned out by the violence. New Order is a short, sharp shock to the system. Albeit a deeply unpleasant one with no redeeming features.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Its dystopian treatise questions the inequality margin between the social classes that make up present-day Mexican society, but I am afraid that its exercise never escapes tautological inertia or first-order aesthetic pretensions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 14, 2022

If you can approach the film with an open mind (and a strong stomach), you’ll find a movie willing to confront the way many people think about things today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Above all else, New Order is provocative. In this brilliant and disturbing dystopian thriller, no one wins as the world crashes around them all, rich and poor. New Order is a film that won’t be easy to shake off.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 20, 2022

At a time when the divide between classes is increasingly pronounced, this thriller explores a gripping, albeit gory, possibility of class warfare. Visually, New Order is slick and rich, the performances honest and gripping.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2022

When so much of today's cinema comes with a shrug of familiarity, New Order feels like something you cannot ignore.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2022

New Order is a bold film that will continue to divide viewers and critics alike, but ultimately, if it forces more discourse on the vast and growing disparity between the rich and the poor, maybe that's exactly as Franco intended.

| Sep 30, 2021

A Great and Important Ride

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 5, 2021

As much as New Order wants to warn audiences how easily a society can turn into a corrupt, fascist dictatorship, he needn't have bothered. A lot of us... already got the gist.

| Original Score: C | Aug 27, 2021

His film is a hard watch, unflinchingly bleak, but may have something important to say.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2021

A fascinating, stylish, uncompromising thriller for all its repugnant prejudices: punk rock movie-making for the ruling elite.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2021

The storyline is meant as fierce social commentary, but it's just a vacuous show of pessimism.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2021

It is possible to depict power's fluid indefatigability with nuance, care and humanity, but in the case of New Order, complexity and a fearless examination of political violence are eschewed in favour of exploitation and nihilism.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2021

New Order very effectively persuades you that a real-life revolution might well be every bit as ugly, horrifying and un-Hollywood as this shows - and that it is on the way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2021

It's a film that feels like a feverish fantasy while also hitting dangerously close to home in a world ravaged by class differences, a global health crisis and the rise of the far right.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 10, 2021

The refusal of hope is offset by a lack of platitudes, making this an antidote to complacency.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2021

The expertly calibrated sound design is a character in its own right, manifesting the rebellion in snatches of background radio chatter and small-talk asides before bringing it ear-splittingly into the foreground. The actors are very good too...

| Jul 12, 2021