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

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

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

It's all about a society manoeuvring to stay at the dinner table while getting its unsavoury elements thrown out, and finding ways to stop them ever coming back.

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

Mad? Possibly. Watchable? Definitely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2019

A disquieting parable of iniquity.

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

Many works of art foreground the victims of corruption; fewer investigate the hearts and minds of those who turn their backs.

| Jul 26, 2019

"Rojo" is a sophisticatedly entertaining reminder of our propensity for malevolent apathy.

| Jul 19, 2019

Rojo uses both familiarity and distanciation to depict a society that never appears that different from the world we know, a mystery thriller of sorts that's both about its moment, and disturbingly timeless.

| Jul 15, 2019

It's a brutal trip, though Naishtat smartly balances the heaviness with moments of levity and absurd comedy.

| Jul 11, 2019

It masterfully sustains a sense of "wrongness" that will be felt even by those unfamiliar with Argentina's history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2019

Its accessibility... could turn this into Naishtat's most widely seen work to date and help consolidate his reputation as an exciting new voice in Argentinean cinema.

| Sep 12, 2018

The actual outcome speaks to Naishtat's resourcefulness as a storyteller; that his faux-Columbo fails to emerge as a hero cinches his film's deep and all-too-recognizably realistic cynicism.

| Sep 11, 2018

The detective plot is shaggy and never fully resolves itself, but the implications of the story resonate like a distant drum.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2018