Sad, without such a limp noodle in the lead I really could've gone places with The Bad Batch - there's whole lots to love stuffed and sauteed at its margins

| Jul 2, 2021

With a powerful soundtrack accompanied by a strong visual proposal, The Bad Batch reminds us more of a good video clip than a film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 28, 2021

Starts strong with startling images but every time it works up a head of steam it veers off track. Its languid pace and stretched-out story makes the two-hour running time feel much longer.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 1, 2021

[The Bad Batch] never manages to develop itself beyond its surface appeal, and it ultimately works as little more than an amalgam of fanboy curiosa.

| Aug 13, 2020

The Bad Batch will not sit well with everyone, and it's not designed to. But it's refreshing in a summer movie season that seems agonizingly designed to please everyone all the time to watch a film that simply doesn't give a f---.

| May 11, 2020

A catapult of visual and thematic ideas without much sense, but of unquestionable magnetism. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 12, 2019

Masterful visual storytelling, a well-imagined future world, and striking allegory.

| Jul 26, 2019

The best point-of-comparison may be writer/director Richard Kelly's Southland Tales as a follow-up to his Donnie Darko. The Bad Batch may not make Jason Momoa sing, but what Kelly did to Justin Timberlake, Amirpour does thrice over to Jim Carrey.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 25, 2019

No matter how bad society itself gets maybe love and understanding can still save a few people- even a cannibal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2019

The Bad Batch could as easily be described as "a Futuristic Cannibal Spaghetti Western," a dystopian genre mash-up.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 16, 2019

With an indecisive narrative and unexplored, interesting avenues, The Bad Batch ultimately disappoints on many levels.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Dec 20, 2018

A scorchingly enervating and rather hypnotic journey from cannibalism to Comfort, a post-apocalyptic town whose benevolent dictator soothes with drugs, raves and a working photocopier. Bluntly satirical, this is a stunning but starkly brutal experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2018

The Bad Batch is a one-of-a-kind movie, a blistering satire that is darkly comic, vividly gruesome, and absolutely demented. This movie isn't for everyone, just those destined to be designated as part of the Bad Batch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 31, 2018

It delivers an impressive spectacle, pausing for nods to Lawrence of Arabia along the way to a cautionary tale that comes off like Mad Max: Fury Road on quaaludes.

| Aug 29, 2018

Amirpour gives us little reason to care (apart from Miami Man's nice portraits of his daughter, maybe) and so, instead, I wondered: What if a person tried not to do terrible things?

| Aug 27, 2018

Ana Lily Amirpour's moody, high-style horror flick is an unconventional watch, but for as tough and tireless as the premise is, the cinematic style of the film itself is quite idyllic.

| Aug 6, 2018

It's not for all tastes, but it has something of the same poetry that marked out her debut, and in its transcendent moments reaffirms Amirpour as one of the most extraordinary new filmmakers to emerge in recent years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2018

The story kept taking unexpected turns throughout. I don't remember Suki Waterhouse from previous movies, but she gives a strong performance in this film. She has charisma and the camera likes her. She looks like a star on the rise.

| Original Score: B | Dec 31, 2017

[Bad Batch] is a post-apocalyptic cannibal movie that devours its influences without ever getting to the red meat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2017

A creepy and self-indulgent dystopian fable.

| Original Score: C | Dec 19, 2017