White God was one of the most heartbreaking, yet satisfying experiences of 2015.

| Aug 2, 2024

Beyond all the variations in the infinity of dog movies that exist, the message is always the same: to tame the beast, you must get down to their level. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 4, 2023

The level of cruelty and an obvious allegoric heft overwhelm the film... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 2, 2022

An overarching theme in White God: instead of attempting to control and dominate Nature, the more humane thing to do would be for humans to become active participants in Nature's design, rather than playing the role of deities.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 8, 2022

Powerful, disturbing, and downright awesome.

| Feb 9, 2021

We understand Hagen's emotional arc with perfect clarity.

| Jul 1, 2019

Imaginative, energetic and ambitious, White God is mysterious, unique and ethically perplexing. Warning dog lovers: some scenes may be distressing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2019

White God's attempts to merge arthouse sensibilities with B-movie fun tends to be hit or miss, but while Mundruczo may falter on the arthouse side, he certainly knows how to make an entertaining genre film.

| Jun 6, 2019

The ultimate message may be a little fuzzy, but Mundruczó has crafted a incredibly cinematic canine parable that remains gripping and inventive from its nose to its tail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2019

White God is too expertly realized and audacious to not at least recommend, even if I felt dispirited and cheated to have endured so much animal-related violence only to arrive at the Shawshank Redemption and Deep Blue Sea beats of the denouement.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 24, 2019

The climax is lovely, Psotta is a beautifully persuasive, serious young heroine and the dogs are magnificent.

| Original Score: B | Dec 19, 2018

There is no anthropomorphizing in the super-excellent Icelandic feature Of Horses and Men, but it makes the human-animal connection plain nonetheless.

| Aug 23, 2018

What you see then among the fluffy chaos on screen is, above all else, a wasted opportunity.

| Aug 3, 2018

Rather than suffering from a lack of form, however, White God is split in two by the tonal and narrative incongruities of a twinned pair of plots that have no business being in the same film.

| Mar 30, 2018

"White God" finds something both awesome and appalling in the violence perpetrated by the dog pack, conveyed in broad panoramic shots of dogs facing down police.

| Feb 16, 2018

... a parable about the rebellions of the oppressed... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 12, 2018

White God is not your average animal film, I'll admit. We in the U.S. are so used to the feel-good animal story that most audiences would find this one is disturbing.

| Aug 10, 2017

White God may be about the adventures of a dog and a young girl, but it's far from a Disney tooth-decayer.

| Aug 2, 2017

An astounding, crushing film.

| Mar 30, 2017

Through Hagen's journey into the pit of madness, this strange film, directed by Kornél Mundruczó, becomes a thriller, a parable, as well as a tough critique of the way men assume superiority over nature.

| May 10, 2016