True History of the Kelly Gang is technically marvelous, and it boasts a phenomenal cast, who all offer amazing performances. With a slow pace and an overall lack of emotional attachment to the characters, I struggled to feel invested.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 24, 2023

At every turn, Kurzel challenges truth and oversimplified ideas about the Australian legend with a bold presentation, even as he avoids having a clear point of view.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2022

For his fourth feature, Australia's prodigal son has returned to his visceral, lo-fi roots.

| Sep 21, 2021

It's established at the start that nothing in this movie is true, but that doesn't take away from its gripping intensity.

| Sep 10, 2021

The effective overdose of machismo it delivers trumps its minor flaws. True Story Of The Kelly Gang is its director's gutsy and relentless return to form...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2021

True History of the Kelly Gang needed some limitations to create a bit more clarity. The dreary mood of the film is set early on, and it never finds its way to any excitement or suspense.

| Feb 17, 2021

Worth a look for Kurzel's bold vision and unconventional approach to the biopic.

| Feb 16, 2021

[The film] embraces the legend of the man rather than the man himself, while also making a subtle statement about the English oppression of the Irish.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 1, 2021

It's not writing an alternate history ... It's writing an alternate mythology.

| Jan 28, 2021

George MacKay is electric as Ned Kelly, twisting and contorting...

| Jan 26, 2021

Ned Kelly is a divisive historical figure, and this overcomplicated version of his story sheds little light on the reason why. It's still interesting enough to recommend.

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Jan 18, 2021

Kurzel executes the film with remarkable visual flair, but I find its narrative devastatingly dull portraying the dark sides of Kelly's criminal career, with characters as empty as an unloaded pistol. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 17, 2021

This pop-art method suggests Alex Cox crossed with Pier Paolo Pasolini. Kurzel has made a post-punk, post-hip-hop, post-neo-realist post-Western.

| Dec 18, 2020

The film's climactic moments are mesmerizing, stylized yet substantial and hauntingly devastating in their lasting impact.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Aug 30, 2020

The film doesn't focus on the adventures and criminal acts of the gang, but on the psychology of the characters and their unique approach to violence [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2020

Like fatal flashes, it gleams of sordid beauty and a single certainty: there is no future. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2020

Moments that take us out of the film, trying to knock down its fourth wall... are premeditated, justified, within a Bretchtian discourse to exercise criticism of an adrift Australia's cultural and social mode. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2020

A movie with a very concrete attitude. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2020

As intense as it gets, the film never scratches the surface as much as the aforementioned The Propositions' script does. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 29, 2020

Ferocious, captivating performances, an uncanny sense of mood and atmosphere that Justin Kurzel does so well, and a violent, esoteric crash into adulthood give True History of the Kelly Gang a compelling urgency.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 25, 2020