The Delinquents takes the liberal view that most people have more in common than not and mixes it with the more conservative view that we all control our own fate and that it’s our choices that separate us.

| Jan 8, 2025

Moreno first presents a heist as mundane as his characters’ lives before complexifying things. This is partly a film of hitches, the pressures and complications of staying in prison or keeping up appearances. Yet it is also ever-shifting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2024

Curiously absorbing and bewildering.

| May 2, 2024

The Delinquents contemplates the allure of a life lived freely with charming, freewheeling style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2024

The Delinquents is an intriguing premise that starts as a caper movie and develops into something existential.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2024

In many respects, The Delinquents shouldn’t really work at all. It’s over three hours long, and unwinds its uncomplicated narrative with a leisurely, insouciant air... But the flipside is the sublime, mountainous Argentine countryside.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2024

Utterly individual, this is one bank robbery film that writes its own cheques.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 21, 2024

An endearing rumination on chasing freedom.

| Jan 19, 2024

Moreno isn’t shy about his use of symbolism...What this effects to disguise, however, is the degree to which [the men's] own thinking has been shaped by symbols and by the belief system which surrounds them.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 8, 2024

Finding meaning in the diversions is the crux of Rodrigo Moreno's shaggy heist flick The Delinquents.

| Jan 5, 2024

Undermining expectations, The Delinquents takes surprising twists via its journey and romance story arcs. One could be forgiven for forgetting that at its heart, it is a heist film, and perhaps that’s its charm.

| Dec 28, 2023

The Delinquents is so hermetic and infatuated with itself that it forgets that giving the viewer a three-hour film implies a certain responsibility for a director, and should be worth every minute the viewer is sitting in that seat.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 26, 2023

For all the ways the film is about the aftermath of a heist in a narrative sense, it's also about the broader lives, passions, and fears of the people outside of it. They're each trying to find salvation, but such things are not so easily bought in life.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 15, 2023

[The dualities] are fun and provide the whole a nice clean, circuitous pathway forward towards a pitch-perfect farce of an ending, but the idea that it takes a crazy premise for both men to finally come alive is the real point.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 15, 2023

Rodrigo Moreno directs a film classified within thieving cinema that constantly reinventes itself and triumphs at the hour of portraying the rebelliousness of its characters. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2023

Rodrigo Moreno’s strangely compelling heist film, The Delinquents starts with a most unusual premise. A shy, respected bank clerk (Daniel Elías) enters the vault and walks out with specified amount of cash (a lot of it)....

| Original Score: B | Dec 1, 2023

[The Delinquents] arrives at Spanish cinemas with a sense of humor, cool, transgressive with genres, and with a wisdom about the human condition that deserves respect, patience, and praise.

| Dec 1, 2023

With deadpan humor and an observational style that’s peppered with an existential twist, this surreal, awkward, rambling film is unfocused, but is so beautifully shot and interesting that it’s worth sticking it out for the long haul.

| Dec 1, 2023

I really like the concept of the film, but whack 30 minutes out of this thing, man. C'mon!

| Nov 29, 2023

I wish it hadn't been so long and attenuated towards the end, but it's definitely still worth seeing.

| Nov 29, 2023