Powerful beyond my reservations.

| Dec 1, 2023

Arguably one of Larrain's most seditious narratives, a feat considering his stellar body of work, The Club is a stunning critique of organized religion, and will hopefully maintain the prolific shelf-life it deserves.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2020

It is also a very daring work that does not hesitate to delve into one of the darkest secrets of Christianity. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 14, 2020

The Club is understated, clever and thought-provoking.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 19, 2019

I'll take this visceral and disturbing look at the Catholic molestation cover-up over the middle-distance politeness of Spotlight any day.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 12, 2019

A uniquely absorbing and provoking film.

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

It effectively pinpoints how denial can be institutionalized over long periods of time.

| Nov 3, 2018

Director Pablo Larraín has made an important movie about the banality of evil. Be clear, it's not much fun. But it was never supposed to be.

| Aug 10, 2018

Ruthlessly dark and acidly funny.

| Aug 3, 2018

Despite the fact that the ending is a bit difficult to follow, muddying some of the cause and effect, this is, nevertheless a very serious film with complex subtext raising thought-provoking questions.

| Sep 15, 2017

You won't soon forget the way that one ends.

| Jan 19, 2017

Even if the overall impact is muddled, the provocative timeliness of this cynical drama provides an emotional gut-punch.

| Jan 16, 2017

If Larraín's intention was to both slam the church and give his audience a hint of how repulsed, traumatized, and likely complicit its victims felt, he hit it out of the park.

| Jan 2, 2017

Few other films this year will provoke as much post-screening discussion, that's certain.

| Dec 28, 2016

In this zero-sum drama, despair is catching. But so is the fascination of watching a gifted filmmaker dissect the emotions and motivations of the sinned and sinned-against.

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

With forensic focus and black humour, Larraín guides us towards a fearless examination of unresolved tensions between suffering, guilt and the closed ranks of institutional impunity.

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

The movie winds up feeling like a kind of cover-up in itself.

| Nov 30, 2016

Prepare for feel-bad cinema. Larraín skilfully manipulates the viewer to feel sympathy for the priests and revulsion for their victim.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2016

El Club criticizes the Catholic Church with such ferocity that not even Spotlight can compare to it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 11, 2016

A cop thriller immersed in the secrecy of the Catholic church, it's complicity and vow of silence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 6, 2016