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

Curiously inert for such purportedly thrilling subject matter.

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

Pablo Trapero's brilliant new film The Clan is an unsettling and provocative thriller which can also be read as an allegory about bad faith and corruption in the post-dictatorship Argentina of the 1980s.

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

[A] terrifically well-made movie ...

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

The Clan is a diabolical movie ride, at once compelling and repelling.

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

Pablo Trapero recalls the case in gruesome, macabre detail, exploring it with energy and elan.

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

Some of the movie's political shadings about Argentina in the early '80s may not quickly resonate with American viewers. Still, it's impossible not to be drawn into the unnerving world of the Puccios.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 21, 2016

A mordant if unwieldy thriller examining how evil not only becomes the norm, but a virtue.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 1, 2016

It's a testimony to the skill of Francella and the filmmaker how much this movie transcends a history lesson.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2016

Even if your knowledge of Argentina's political history is wanting, The Clan is still worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 25, 2016

Trapero has crafted a compelling tale about the tragic price of unquestioning loyalty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2016

A demonic performance from Guillermo Francella anchors this 2015 Argentinian drama about the Puccio clan.

| Mar 24, 2016

Stylish, atmospheric and dispiriting, "The Clan" gives cynical new twist to an old saw: The family that preys together stays together - but usually, not for long.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2016

The film's parallels are drawn so bluntly that they lose all suggestive force, since there's little left to suggest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2016

An intriguingly unnerving little civics lesson.

| Mar 19, 2016

Shares a production team with Wild Tales, and like that previous film, it possesses a pitch-black sense of humor and a willingness to stare with wide-open eyes into the abyss of humanity's worst behavior.

| Mar 18, 2016

Francella and Lanzani are excellent, not only in their charged moments together, but throughout this nervy and provocative picture.

| Mar 17, 2016