A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

"Is much more a visual poem than a swashbuckling tale, again distinguished by Diaz’s trademark disregard for trying the viewer’s patience with static long takes and lack of narrative flow" 

"A major disappointment from a major filmmaker (...) ['A Lullaby...']but sees the helmer venturing into the kind of declamatory, didactic rhetoric that his recent stunners 'Norte, the End of History' and 'From What Is Before' so elegantly avoided" 

"It’s just too damn long, and it doesn’t reach the artistic level of a 'Satantango' to wholly warrant the time spent with it" 

"Many films by Filipino director Lav Diaz take place wholly or partly in forests - and the feeling of being lost in one has never been so bewitchingly acute as here'"