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The Bad Batch

2016

Ana Lily Amirpour

Suki Waterhouse, Keanu Reeves, Jason Momoa, Jim Carrey ...

4.8

3,666

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Drama A love story set in a community of cannibals in a future dystopia. In a desert wasteland in Texas, a muscled cannibal breaks one important rule: don't play with your food.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A bewitching fusion of The Road Warrior with Robert Rodriguez-style scorched-earth badassery and a mystical Western strain that tips its hat to Alejandro Jodorowsky's 'El Topo'"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Cannibals and Trump-style politics converge in Ana Lily Amirpour's striking but dissatisfying sci-fi mashup (...) Though there’s much to savor in the pic’s lavishly distressed visuals (...) its narrative feels increasingly stretched and desultory"	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"A film that frustratingly contains a good, or at least a fun movie, without actually being a good, or a particularly fun, movie"	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Amirpour follows up 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' with another totally original genre experiment"	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"Ana Lily Amirpour’s menacing second film boasts impressive turns – including from Suki Waterhouse – but conforms to convention after a smart, chilling first act (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"Amirpour has also learned a few lessons from Kathryn Bigelow, embracing fluid editing rhythms that establish a setting's alluring alien-ness (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jordan Hoffman Vanity Fair	"[It] falls flat (...) There's just not enough excitement or empathy (...) A disappointment"	NEG
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"Although a bit shaggier than her first attention-getting debut, 'The Bad Batch' is nevertheless a compelling work (...) Amirpour’s visual sensibility remains strikingly unique"	POS

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