Impressively commanding audience commitment to its increasingly disturbing narrative, it's a compelling scenario suggesting the universally understood ordeal of finding out true love is blind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2020

The Tribe could have gotten away with its desire to be nothing more than an ode to the virtues of rehearsal, if it didn't try to pretend it was anything more than that.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 3, 2019

Miroslav Slaboshpitsky's audacious feature debut masters visual storytelling without a single utterance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 31, 2019

It's a fascinating storytelling experiment, always teetering on the edge of gimmickry, mesmerizing and pointless, with an incredibly indulgent string of unpleasantness that dominates the final third.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2019

Unique to the personality of the actor, each facial expression and action is charged with attitude and emotion, culminating in a visceral, abrasive physicality that is terrifying in its intensity.

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

Slaboshpitsky's The Tribe is gripping, tour de force cinema from its opening jab, and from there it continually forces you against the ropes before delivering a knockout punch with a gut-wrenching conclusion destined to leave audiences stunned.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 3, 2019

The Tribe was made for an audience waiting for an authentically beautiful and powerful piece of cinematic art.

| Nov 9, 2018

Little can prepare you for The Tribe in a number of senses, but it is unhesitatingly a film that should be considered essential for anyone with a passion for intelligent, challenging cinema.

| Aug 25, 2018

The Tribe ultimately doesn't have all that much to say. For all the deafening mayhem on display, it all but loses its voice.

| Aug 22, 2018

Artistically challenging, topically provocative, stylistically assured, and an all-around daring, alluring, searing work of vision.

| Aug 3, 2018

[Slaboshpitsky] has succeeded in being audaciously willful: by taking away a large part of what we respond to in a film-the aural elements-he makes it difficult for us to watch, but if you make the effort it becomes equally difficult to look away from.

| Oct 11, 2017

The Tribe is about revealing what is hidden from the conventional world, or that which it tends to ignore.

| Sep 30, 2017

Attention must be paid when a film as formally audacious as The Tribe comes along.

| Aug 21, 2017

Once you are accustomed to the manners and methodology of the film, what remains is the story. And in this one, it's thin gruel

| Aug 16, 2017

Chilling and creepy, [The Tribe] is a film that demands your attention, makes you think, and reminds us just how much we don't say when we speak.

| Aug 14, 2017

With sexual and physical violence galore, an extended back-room abortion scene, and an unremitting wordlessness, this film is blisteringly difficult to watch.

| Aug 2, 2017

The Tribe is a film that opens itself to endless conversations, whether they're about the nature of its storytelling or the story it chooses to tell.

| Jun 26, 2017

There are many reasons to watch The Tribe but none of them are easy. The Tribe pushes the limits of filmmaking by engaging viewers in a completely different sensory experience.

| Jun 20, 2017

The movie is leisurely as well as graphic in its representation of sex and violence and, predicated on long takes, is visceral in a wholly unexpected way.

| Mar 28, 2017

Slaboshpitsky... has definitely delivered something rare and singular -- the sort of experience we hope to find in cinema, not just because it's new and we haven't seen it, but because it's truly stimulating work.

| Mar 16, 2017