The tension of the inevitable pulls tautly at the lovers, like a mousetrap spring ready to snap at the slightest provocation.

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 13, 2005

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 19, 2003

Medellin displays [its] bi-polar nature through Schroeder's perceptive camera

| Original Score: B | Jun 16, 2003

Like a random gang shooting - it leaves a big impression but makes no sense.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Mar 11, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

The message is fine, the film itself is not so fine.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 25, 2002

...a subtle and rigorous examination of the dynamics of power, both personal and political ...like Thomas Mann's Death in Venice transposed into the key of viciousness

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 29, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 73/100 | Jun 22, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 9, 2002

... a powerful examination of the decline of civilization as refracted in one tiny corner of the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 9, 2001

We get the point after the first half hour or so: hope is gone, life is awful, okay, okay, got it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2001

The film's title is appropriate. A desperate Catholicism flavors the doomed city.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 28, 2001

A film of clarity, feeling and electric intensity.

| Oct 25, 2001

Extraordinarily compelling and gripping.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 21, 2001

A cautionary tale set in Medellin, Colombia, where even peace loving individuals become anesthetized by random carnage.

| Oct 13, 2001

An engrossing look at how hope and love can still survive in the bleakest of conditions.

| Oct 12, 2001