A melodramatic thriller with some nods to Luis Buñuel's films. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 29, 2024

...these tricks become uninspired as they continue through the film, forgettable if not for its real life basis, and the truly confounding acts of the Puccio family.

| Mar 16, 2020

'The Clan' is a remarkable and balanced film that knows how to take advantage of the murky real story it tells us. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 4, 2019

'The Clan' transforms the viewer's attention into a boredom that increases as the conclusion approaches. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 4, 2019

An interesting story, uninterestingly told: Trapero's take on an unusual tale of Argentine criminality won't win any new converts to his country's national cinema.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2018

... the most anticipated Argentinian film of the year. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 22, 2018

A plodding, lazy and ravishingly dull biopic about a vicious and genuinely fascinating crime family set in the early eighties.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 5, 2017

This is often an unpleasant and chilling watch, but the performances are strong.

| Original Score: B | Jan 2, 2017

It's an increasingly bizarre story, but Trapero keeps you engrossed with a well-crafted script and terrific performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2016

Director Pablo Trapero exercises a cool restraint in his portrayal of this diabolical domesticity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2016

The Clan explores the dark side of bourgeois respectability, and offers telling insight into the banality of evil: it's a fine film, but not an easy watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2016

The inclusion of archival footage of Alfonsn and General Galtieri is not only part of Trapero's attention to period detail but also serves to contextualise the film within a wider culture of memory politics.

| Sep 23, 2016

The familiar beats of the crime saga ... are all present and correct. But the dark political and societal subtext makes for a new, discombobulating sensation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2016

Trapero negotiates with verve the uneasy juxtaposition between quotidian family life and something rather darker and more sinister.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2016

The patriarch is Arquimedes Puccio, played brilliantly by Guillermo Francella, his piercing, pale-blue eyes gazing from another, darker world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2016

An unforgiving, but highly compelling watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2016

Related in gritty Scorsese fashion with striking Hollywood style, and revealing Trapero's top-notch storytelling prowess and expert technical flair, the movie builds to a truly stunning climax.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2016

Curiously inert for such purportedly thrilling subject matter.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2016

A striking, powerful thriller.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2016

So strange and compelling it quickly transcends its influences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2016