| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Director Lucrecia Martel's storytelling is spare to the point of being stingy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 7, 2005

Martel's style is tentative, elusive, so much so that even the most conventional episodes benefit from her fresh perspective.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 24, 2005

A very intelligent movie marked by candor and compassion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2005

Ultimately turns out to be something of a bore, a film that, like one of its main characters, wanders around touching on subjects and then fleeing before connecting fully.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jun 17, 2005

A uniquely intriguing motion picture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2005

A low-key tone poem about the passions of sex and religion

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 16, 2005

In fact, the first meeting between Dr. Jano and Amalia at an outdoor Theremin demonstration is so startling, so luridly unexpected, I found myself so mesmerized by the vulgar hilarity I couldn't wait to see where I was going to be taken next.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 14, 2005

Martel has a wicked way with atmosphere.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 3, 2005

Young and bold and bristling with talent, Argentine director Lucrecia Martel has continued right where she left off in her feature debut.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2005

Keeping the viewers at a distance also makes it difficult to empathize with the characters, a situation worsened by disjointed plotting.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 2, 2005

I'm tempted to write 'I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it,' except that I actually like spinach, and I could barely keep this half-baked dish down.

| May 27, 2005

It's a document that suggests that the road to hell is paved with bad communication skills.

| May 27, 2005

A collection of beautifully acted encounters, conversations, symbols, and vignettes woven into an evocative and unforgettably surreal garment.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2005

See The Holy Girl, if only for Ms. Alche's satanic smile.

| May 19, 2005

A hauntingly lyrical study of sexual awakening.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2005

A subtle artist and a sharp observer, Martel manages a large cast with an ease that matches her skill at storytelling, within which psychological insight and social comment flow easily and implicitly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2005

Spiritual longing gets tangled up with erotic fever for the teenage girls who whisper in one another's ears in Lucrecia Martel's marvelous, psychologically unnerving second feature.

| Original Score: A- | May 4, 2005

Alche has an amazingly expressive face and becomes such a magnetic presence that you'll feel a distinct need to rescue her.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 29, 2005

No wonder Pedro Almodovar signed on as executive producer. We suspect Luis Bunuel would have done the same, were he still with us.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2005