Bonello does not construct a bomb-of-a-film but sets an intriguing, if often frighteningly beautiful minefield for his audience to navigate.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 14, 2024

To some (arguable) degree a shallow movie with a flippant/trivializing attitude, rejecting the default gravity granted its subject...it’s also a highly recommended, original and (this may seem like the wrong word, but it’s true) fun work.

| Jan 17, 2023

If the film is a parable of today's chaotic world, it's a weak one.

| Jul 17, 2020

Little is said about the particular ideology of the film's main characters... It's this abstraction of meaning, the way the film refuses to prescribe an interpretation to the events unfolding, that makes it challenging and, ultimately, rewarding.

| Feb 5, 2020

A chilling look at the cyclical nature of violence, and the failure of governments to listen to their people.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 4, 2019

An important piece is that Bonello avoids a particular ideology or religion. Because one major element distinguishes all terrorists: emptiness.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 1, 2019

Ultimately the film fails to leave any lasting impression beyond the controversy of its premise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2019

The fragmented nature of the film, and the way it is filmed (as if it is a suspenseful episode of 24) gets tiring, and the tension deflates like a balloon when nothing seems to happen.

| Feb 21, 2019

A masterful study of political and commercial spaces intersecting to the point of personal crisis, Nocturama is one of the boldest creations you're bound to come across. It's also one of the best, because it never wastes a minute of its time.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 10, 2018

Rather than profound, Nocturama is almost forgettable.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 10, 2018

Inhabits the nihilistic and violent mood of the times.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 15, 2018

Part of what's so refreshing about "Nocturama" is that it arrives at a time when the Western media assumes that political violence is always linked to Islamic fundamentalism, and 온라인카지노추천 and films rarely represent the far left...

| Mar 6, 2018

Although leaving the motivations of the characters to our imagination and fabricating a couple of strained situations that aim to be cool, Nocturama has acceptable moments of suspense and exhales estrangement all around.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 21, 2018

The form and the background of Nocturama do not merge, but collide with each other in an outcome that denies us any possible tranquility. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 16, 2018

Nocturama works so well because it does not spoon-feed us any answers. In fact, by the film's end, many may be left with more questions than answers. And perhaps that was Bonello's point all along.

| Jan 8, 2018

... these young people love as much as they despise the world they live in, one of sophisticated materialism, an oppressive system so meticulously designed that it can only be destroyed, completely, by itself. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 27, 2017

At least with regards to what it is composed of, Nocturama is many things.

| Nov 17, 2017

Bonnello has talent, his views are complex and the film also raises interesting questions. He should be taken very seriously.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 15, 2017

Though director Bertrand Bonello's exacting vision of a Parisian terror plot is as stylised and tensely structured as a psychological thriller, the drama plays out with unnerving realism.

| Oct 9, 2017

The first half is a crisply executed caper thriller of an elaborate, exacting terrorist action undertaken by young adults who seem to have no political ideology beyond a desire to tear it all down...

| Oct 6, 2017