…investigates a shared reality tilting towards communal atrophy; it’s a haunting, visionary work by one of the 20th century’s consummate film-makers..

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2024

Like all metaphors, The Exterminating Angel is not meant to be extended and explained: it is about panic and suggestibility, about the unconscious, about the reassurance that people feel in the traps of class and superstition.

| Mar 9, 2024

A film in which Buñuel, with a surrealist aesthetic, magnifies a sharp satire on social classes and the chiaroscuros of the human condition. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 9, 2023

Given time to marinate, the big picture of Buñuel’s film fades, allowing the minutiae of his bizarre universe to reveal themselves little by little.

| Aug 1, 2023

Microcosm of a decadent society’s collapse...

| Jul 18, 2023

Luis Buñuel’s boundary pushing exercise in surrealism ushered in a new age of satires about the selfish behavior of aristocrats and served as a significant influence on future entries in the horror genre.

| Feb 1, 2023

Almost 60 years after it was originally released, his film “The Exterminating Angel” has never been more relevant.

| Sep 28, 2022

An important masterpiece amongst a filmography littered with them, The Exterminating Angel is effectively administrated social satire -- scathing and lethally subversive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2020

The Exterminating Angel plays with the magical, the unpredictable, the unknown, but also with a specific set of characters that fall apart. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 29, 2019

Very tense, puzzling, sinister, and yet extraordinarily stodgy, this is the least anecdotal Buñuel and the most redolent of the Barrier effect that seems to murmur through his films.

| Jun 19, 2019

Boldly uses his surrealist sensibilities in service of an incendiary message, creating a darkly hilarious evisceration of a social order that no longer has any basis in reality.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

'The Exterminating Angel' is a confrontation. Not only because of its clear political underpinnings, but because of a weird undercurrent of human sympathy.

| Jan 25, 2017

It's one of the greater pleasures of the film that its surface-level plot is weird enough to watch it for the sheer joy of Surreal farce.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 17, 2016

One of the most celebrated prizes of Mexican cinema.

| Dec 29, 2015

The comedy is as black as an 8 Ball.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Jul 21, 2012

A wickedly designed, satirical and quite possibly dangerous work.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 15, 2011

Absurdity is relative; it requires a reality (or something less absurd) to be contrasted with.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 29, 2009

Bunuel's ultimate cosmic joke against meaning itself

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 11, 2009

One of the master director's most concentrated and unambiguous works.

Full Review | Apr 11, 2008

Trained bears, sheep, and Bunuel's typical contempt for the church all mix to create a classic of cinema.

| Original Score: A | Jun 21, 2007