Mexican filmmaker Yulene Olaizola's fifth and most assured feature seduces you away from the legibility of its premise so gradually that you don't realize you've lost your bearings until it's already too late...

| Original Score: B | Jun 14, 2021

But through the alien beauty of its visuals, Andrewin's hidden-waters-run-deep performance, and its increasingly tense atmosphere, Tragic Jungle casts an unsettling spell.

| Jun 14, 2021

More conceptual than intuitive, Tragic Jungle offers the problem without the passion: a journey into the heart of darkness without the thrill of the unknown.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 9, 2021

This is a quietly captivating tale that feels cautionary and yet does not have an easily parsable moral, perhaps because the justice it serves is mapped to a timescale much longer than humanity's.

| Nov 25, 2020

Trespassing any of these limits carries grave consequences ripe for captivating cinema in the proper hands. That's indisputably the case here.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 13, 2020

It feels more like a sampling of moods and themes than a full-fledged narrative. Still, certain moments linger in your mind...

| Sep 25, 2020

It operates in an ambiguous register, suggesting that a woman is working in unison with nature to dole out revenge for their exploitation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2020