Battle in Heaven
Tartan | Release Date: February 17, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Reygadas is an undeniably important artist hewing his own path, but who is also self-consciously playing to the tastes of a tiny elite audience that craves obscurantism, confrontation and heavy-handed symbolism. Still, I really want you to see this. Then I'll have somebody to talk about it with. Read full review
50
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
We may indeed yawn a bit from time to time, but we know that we are yawning in the presence of a director who is intelligently disturbed by the moral inertia he sees around him and whose future is worth watching. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
This is really Reygadas' show all the way. And what he's delivered is a sad, tawdry picture in which all hope for salvation lies with God. Read full review
50
Film ThreatMichael Ferraro
There is an interesting set-up here for something great but Battle In Heaven never lives up to the expectations. Read full review
40
L.A. Weekly
Battle in Heaven cannot be so easily dismissed - indeed, it is that rare failed film that leaves you as eager to see what its maker will do next as you were when you walked in the door. Read full review
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