A Tarr film that, with a dense aesthetic, has a certain beauty in its desolate atmospheres, but lacks an emotional well and, often, the characters only function as automatons to establish a philosophical dialogue about suffering. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 14, 2025

Béla Tarr's supposed career finale is a supreme metaphysical meditation on death and human cruelty that lulls us into a state of despondent surrender with simplistic repetition and a truly vexing soundtrack.

| Nov 19, 2020

Perfect framing.

| Aug 11, 2020

...austerely captures humanity's basic struggle, while recognizing in that struggle a certain dignity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2020

At once elegiac and fiercely relevant. Tarr is not content to go quietly into that good night.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Maligned by some due to its crawling pace and monotonous repetition, there is still something inexplicably mesmerising and entrancing about Tarr's reputed last film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2019

The Turin Horse is a strikingly beautiful black-and-white film... But then, not much happens in it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 4, 2019

In the end...the film's characters as well as the viewer may welcome the apocalypse.

| Aug 30, 2018

Every frame could be a photograph - not because he prefers lengthy, distant takes (his camera is surprisingly mobile and inquisitive for a 'slow cinema' director) but because each frame is perfectly composed with care.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2018

While it's not among Tarr's greatest works, this self-proclaimed final film could not be a more fitting conclusion to a great career, in its strict adherence to both his formal and thematic tendencies.

| Oct 4, 2017

... the images in The Turin Horse become in many ways the inner thoughts of its two characters, even as the characters exist inside the images.

| Oct 2, 2017

Deeply pessimistic but cinematically radiant take on the futility of existence.

| Jan 30, 2015

This great poem on the end of the world is truly a film for the ages. It can't really be described, but only lived.

| Sep 18, 2014

Strangely hypnotic, even mesmerizing.

| Dec 13, 2013

No movie could possibly live up to the monumental, forbidding grandeur of The Turin Horse's lengthy opening shot, but [Bela Tarr]... goes ahead and attempts the impossible, and comes frighteningly close to succeeding.

| Jan 8, 2013

This film seems to imply that non-existence is preferable to existence. Some people feel that way, but I wish they would keep it to themselves and not inflict this on others through this kind of media.

| Original Score: C | Dec 23, 2012

"The Turin Horse" is an existential provocation to its audience, demanding that we consider the effect of man's judgments against nature and ultimately against ourselves.

| Original Score: A+ | Oct 29, 2012

Though a heavy and somnolent watch and not for all tastes, it has redeeming value for being so full of reality.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 22, 2012

"The Turin Horse" is a parable, which means it's both very simple and very weighty. It's not about event and emotion, but duration and endurance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 28, 2012

[Tarr's] most direct and overtly compassionate film.

| Jun 18, 2012