Victoria manages to pulse with lasting energy, displaying just how incredible, devastating, thrilling and painful even two hours of life, spent really living, can be.

| Aug 1, 2023

Filmed in one shot, this low-budget German crime drama is an unexpected triumph.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2022

Schipper's technique, shooting the entire movie in one continuous shot, over dozens of locations without the aid of special effects or CGI (or an editor, I guess), is flashy and eye grabbing, but more importantly lends a sense of immediacy to the story.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Comparisons to similarly executed films are inevitable but in its delicate balance of tenderness and tension, Victoria has few equals.

| Jan 14, 2021

An ambitious experiment which will impress the technically obsessed and potentially aggravate the impatient, Victoria proposes an interesting debate on the mechanics of cinema, while presenting an engrossing narrative.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 13, 2020

Being filmed in a single continuous shot over two hours long is, in my opinion, a visual wonder; whose experimental audacity possesses a surprising degree of frenzy and emotional authenticity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 26, 2020

It plays with the spectator to create a rare atmosphere in which it prepares us for anything and at the same time manages to surprise, terrify and slap us when necessary. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 10, 2020

"One City. One Night. One Take." One Wow.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2019

That the handheld camerawork often ceases to "feel" like a single-take movie is testament to how well the actors draw the audience in.

| Sep 1, 2019

Victoria doesn't really aspire to be anything more than a self-contained genre piece, and that makes its silliness both easy to swallow and easy to make fun of at the same time.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | May 24, 2019

Victoria is superbly executed, character-driven, and full of twists and turns that will keep you watching and riveted to the screen at all times.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 10, 2019

VICTORIA unfolds in real-time and hits life's imperfections and meandering beats along the way, transcending the crime drama into something of rare beauty.

| Original Score: A | Mar 30, 2019

What director Sebastian Schipper gets entirely wrong is to assume an automatic profundity and import by simply co-opting the technique of a single-take.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2018

Deft performances, especially from Laia Costa in the title role, but much patience is required before the going gets good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

For all its failings and divisive choices, this is a movie that wows... Beyond the sheer effort that went into enabling this unbroken optical illusion, both the director and his principal cast show unmistakable promise.

| Aug 3, 2018

Don't let the incredibly ballsy yet excellently executed one take angle be the only reason you check out Victoria

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 4, 2017

One moment of undeniable brilliance explains why she embarks on such a dangerous nocturnal adventure but can't stop the film from slowly descending into underworld cliché and unconvincing melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2017

The story itself would seem too clichéd without the immediacy of the presentation. In the end it's more stunt than drama, though at its best an exhilarating stunt.

| Oct 10, 2017

Every time you think there's a limit to their stupidity and bad decisions, you're proven wrong. It gets worse.

| Aug 14, 2017

There are some huge narrative implausibilities, but Schipper's virtuoso style propels us through his characters' highs and lows. Ace performances, too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2017