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Monos

2019

Alejandro Landes

Moises Arias, Julianne Nicholson, Sofia Buenaventura, Jorge Román ...

6.4

3,118

Drama On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage, an american female doctor.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Monos' never settles into one rhythm, keeping audiences on edge (...) This is a gripping, sometimes hypnotising film in which notions of good and evil are less clear-cut than the urgent desire to stay alive."	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"A sublimely crafted saga about child soldiers discovering their own hearts of darkness in an unnamed, untamed Latin American wilderness"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Landes delivers a suspenseful encapsulation of alienated youth (...) 'Monos' speeds toward a riveting conclusion that leaves the fates of a few characters open-ended"	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"Even in this fictional context, the line between portraying and exploiting abused innocence gets uncomfortably, offensively blurred."	NEU
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"Nicholson delivers a stunning performance (...) 'Monos' is a monumentally cinematic experience of lush wilderness and raw emotions."	POS
United States	Joe Blessing The Playlist	"Though 'Monos' feels very contemporary aesthetically, its subjects are timeless (...) It’s a philosophical film with very few words, examining its ideas through powerful images and feelings."	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"A surreal and mesmerising Latin American take on 'Lord of the Flies' (...) There’s a bicep-flexing quality to Landes’s direction, with its bursts of colour and chaos (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Apocalypse Now' on shrooms (...) What is so intriguing about 'Monos' is that it is simply about the group, collectively, with no member more important than any other (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jordan Raup The Film Stage	"The viscerality will surely leave one shaken, though they may question if the unceasing sadistic acts on display are worth the experience."	NEU
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"Engaging but message feels too familiar (...) [The performances] are vivid and utterly credible, yet the conspicuously metaphorical nature of the context (...) eventually becomes wearisome (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lewis Knight Mirror	"A hypnotic examination of child guerrilla warfare that is visually striking and features an alien score from Mica Levi (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	David Katz Cineuropa	"A film that oozes pure adrenaline and excellent technique (...) Rarely do we see a modern film with this sense of pure danger"	POS
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"'Monos' is as bleak, confrontational, and emotionally brutalizing as filmmaking tends to get these days, but it’s overwhelmingly captivating (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"A masterful, visceral film about child soldiers (...) [It] exists somewhere between psychological realism and art-movie ecstasy"	POS
Canada	Peter Howell Toronto Star	"An intoxicating descent into anarchy that alarmingly suggests the bonds of civility are all too easy to shuck off (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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