It was an impressively fervid work, but nothing about it suggested that, given the opportunity to scale up, Naishtat would take it easy on the audience.

| Jan 5, 2023

The movie's eerie, ominous atmosphere is legitimate, but can't substitute itself for historical concreteness.

| Aug 6, 2020

Rojo pulsates both with the motif of blood and the subtly indelible image of a solar eclipse, when an orb blots out the sun, obscuring all but its deep red edges.

| Feb 26, 2020

Director Benjamin Naishtat throws us into a tizzy and then keeps us guessing, when he will lower the cinematic boom.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 18, 2019

Set in Argentina a year before the military coup of 1976 that turned the country into a torture chamber, it is a searing portrait of the middle-class complacency that relied on.

| Nov 16, 2019

A damning political satire thriller set in 1975 Argentina before the coup of the military junta.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 15, 2019

Surviving the initial two scenes of this disturbing and excellent movie is no easy task. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2019

Deadpan [and] very funny even though you feel uncomfortable laughing.

| Oct 2, 2019

Dario Grandinetti's riveting performance as the vaguely menacing yet bureaucratic Claudio is a reminder that repulsive or unfathomable characters can be as fascinating as likable ones.

| Sep 26, 2019

Naishtat distracts the viewer with subplots that may be irrelevant but contribute to a fevered tension that makes this the strongest of the festival titles we previewed.

| Sep 12, 2019

A slow burn piece but peppered with moments of rich humor and real tension, and what a treat to see Alfredo Castro turn up as a private detective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2019

[I]t may be a bit dry for viewers not invested in its topics, but the pompous, panicked lawyer is well drawn and Naishtat finds ripe ways to depict a society turning ominous.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2019

The ensemble excels, but it's Naishtat's script and direction that most chillingly convey the ease with which normality can turn to nightmare.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2019

Every polite sentence is a metaphor for something worse, and the magnificent plains of Argentina make the human action seem disturbingly small.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2019

The film does not serve up its ideas in easily digestible bites. The audience needs to work with a dislocated string of scenes that sometimes highlight absurdity, sometimes violence and frequently say very little at all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2019

It's powerful material, deftly delivered.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2019

Embrace this little masterpiece before it disappears.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2019

A film in which there's a sharp edge, and the satire and humor don't do anything to take that sharpness off.

| Sep 6, 2019

This period drama quickly gets under the skin thanks to writer-director Benjamin Naishtat stylishly intimate storytelling and understated performances from the cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 6, 2019

A disarming allegory about middle-class society turning a blind eye to the excesses committed in the name of so-called peace and stability.

| Sep 6, 2019