From the first scene, Misántropo manages to unfold the intrigue and skillfully manage the suspense, to keep the viewer trapped throughout the story. There, two logics in tension are represented, the logic of the murderer and the logic of the police system

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 22, 2024

Even after two hours, one fails to understand the filmmaker's intention: is this a political commentary on gun violence in America or a plea to look at the perpetrators with sympathy?

| Jun 10, 2024

Szifron offers a look at the late-capitalist social abyss through dense and cold textures; a solved puzzle that leaves a deeply sad aftertaste, a resolution that hides a portrait of a world in which empathy has withered... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2024

While this textbook detective story may likely disappoint lovers of Szifrón's most celebrated movies, To Catch a Killer is concise, honest, entertaining, and has moderate grit. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2024

An elliptical work, with a lot of off-screen action. Remarkable, dark, nihilistic, ideological. And despite everything, intense. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 2, 2024

Damián Szifron's new thriller contains one of the best shot sniper sequences in recent years and a fascinating investigation in understanding the mind of a murderer. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 31, 2024

Szifron and his co-writer Jonathan Wakeham play it too safe, creating an aggressively stale procedural that doesn’t pack the gut punch it wants to deliver.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2023

The search for a serial-killer uncovers the dirt of contemporary American society in To Catch a Killer, the first feature and a very solid film in Hollywood by Argentine Damián Szifron. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2023

You can call off the manhunt — the script is the real killer here.

| Aug 25, 2023

Szifron's movie recalls the best of David Fincher by being able to create a fast-paced hunt loaded with psychological elements. Also, it adds small touches of acid humor typical of his work. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 24, 2023

Labyrinthine, raw, cerebral and full of tension, To Catch a Killer is an enjoyable study of human chaos. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 13, 2023

The story is efficient until the final act stumbles with different revelations. It works, but it's too conventional. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 10, 2023

A competent thriller. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 6, 2023

It is a dutiful but impersonal film, very different from Szifron's previous production, who we know is capable of doing something much more original, interesting and visually impressive. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 23, 2023

Shailene Woodley is out of her element here and given no help from a screenplay that would like to exist in the same universe of The Silence of the Lambs' feminine viewpoint but gives all the best stuff to Ben Mendelsohn.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 20, 2023

a solid procedural that efficiently and engagingly moves through its relatively predictable plot points

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2023

Szifron approaches his work with invention and panache and this film is just so good-looking and atmospheric.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2023

While there is not much wrong with this solid crime procedural set in present-day Baltimore, there [is] nothing too remarkable about it either.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 12, 2023

It’s a must for fans of gritty thrillers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2023

Exciting premise of catching a serial killer but Shailene Woodley walks trough her role.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 4, 2023