Motel Destino

Name: Motel Destino
Genre: Thriller
Released: August 29, 2025
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 74

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: August 29, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Under the burning sky on a roadside on the coast of Ceará, Motel Destino is the scene of dangerous games of desire, power and violence. One night, the arrival of young Heraldo definitively transforms the daily life of the place. [Strand Releasing]

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 112 min

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Guy Lodge

May 23, 2024

As an erotic thriller, it’s more preoccupied with the first half of that term than the second, and that’s just fine. Read full review

Rafaela Sales Ross

May 9, 2025

The director is an expert in this precise kind of world-building, one intricately related to yearning – for another, for belonging, for redemption. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Aug 29, 2025

The payoff feels somewhat slight, but the foreplay — the will-they-or-won’t-they and the will-he-find-out — builds up with energy and flare. Maybe climaxes are overrated, anyway. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

May 23, 2024

It’s sexy, disturbing, yet cold despite the simmering equatorial heat and hot lava of freely flowing attractions. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Aug 29, 2025

The film certainly registers the dynamics between old and young, haves and have-nots—struggles that characterize societies far beyond Brazil. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

May 23, 2024

Motel Destino may not make a profound impact, but it does make an impact nonetheless. Read full review

Phil de Semlyen

May 23, 2024

Motel Destino never deviates radically enough from that tried-and-tested Postman template to throw up too many surprises. The result is frisky but fleeting. Read full review

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