A strongly intended and conceived film, but without the passion of the earlier work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2024

Avoids as much as possible empty romanticism, unnecessary aesthetic embellishments and, above all, absolute responses. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 11, 2024

"Sujo" is an evocative film guided by magic and compassion.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 6, 2024

Sujo is a gentle film about a harsh world, and its patience and sensitivity give space for a refreshingly different kind of story about the Mexican drug wars to emerge than we are typically used to seeing.

| Aug 20, 2024

Let this allegory about violence, sorrow and hope wash over you. It will take time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2024

Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez wrote and directed this perfectly rendered firecracker of a character study.

| Jan 30, 2024

Narratively speaking, the story is most exciting when the risks to Sujo are greatest. But the moments that stick with you in the days and weeks afterward are the quiet ones...

| Jan 29, 2024

Like their debut "Identifying Features," filmmakers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez continue to explore hot button social issues through a fiercely personal lens.

| Jan 23, 2024

Its undertow of menace is expertly sustained, and its dread buffered by hope.

| Jan 19, 2024

A work of tremendous lyrical potency, even more intricate in meaning and scope than the pair’s earlier stunner, Sujo thunderously demonstrates why Valdez and Rondero stand among those soon to be regarded as the new masters of Mexican cinema.

| Original Score: A | Jan 19, 2024

This is a satisfying and impressively acted drama...

| Jan 19, 2024

Befitting the unseen forces that seem to drive the characters, writer-directors Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero bring a haunted, dreamlike undercurrent to the film similar to sequences from their prior collaboration, Identifying Features.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 19, 2024