Aurora
Cinema Guild | Release Date: June 29, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasJun 29, 2011
Over a difficult three-hour sprawl, Cristi Puiu's Aurora fully explores the time before and after a killer strikes, and it has the cumulative effect of making what passes for a "motive" seem absurdly simplistic. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 28, 2011
A quiet, steady burn filled with stretches of unsettlingly reverberant silence cleaved in half by a midpoint eruption of violence. Here there is before, and then there is after. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSep 15, 2011
The film takes its time detailing his mundane activities, often withholding the kind of information audiences usually expect, and it's Puiu's talent to transform it all into a highly disturbing portrait - both of an individual and a society. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnJun 28, 2011
A slow burn thriller taken to the extreme, Cristi Puiu's Aurora continues the Romanian writer-director's obsession with time as his main narrative device. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. HobermanJun 28, 2011
Call it a mental workout that (although considerably less arduous than reading Sartre) some might find exhausting and others exhilarating. Aurora is not a movie to make you glad that you exist; it's a movie that makes you aware that you do. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerJun 28, 2011
What Puiu seems to be suggesting is that the complexities of human behavior and relationships are beyond the power of the law to comprehend, but are they also beyond the power of the cinema? Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJul 1, 2011
Maddeningly mundane, this Romanian drama aims for an antiseptic look at random violence and, unfortunately, achieves it. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 28, 2011
Puiu offers zero insight into his character; only suckers will find the pose artful or nourishing. Skip it. Read full review
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