Pedro Páramo

Name: Pedro Páramo
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Released: November 6, 2024
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 57

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): November 6, 2024 | R

Summary: Pedro Páramo not only pays tribute to Mexico’s most important literary work, it is also a tribute to love, one as powerful as it is macabre, capable of bringing the entire town of Comala and all its inhabitants down with it.

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Western

Rating: R

Runtime: 130 min

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Collider Erick Massoto

Nov 6, 2024

Pedro Páramo uses its supernatural language to inform the audience of the consequences of a collective wrongdoing. It is also remarkably efficient at communicating different storylines to the audience without making viewers get lost in the process. Read full review

Steve Pond

Nov 6, 2024

The images are vivid, but the storytelling remains elusive and elliptical, exploring the title character from different perspectives without ever pinning him down. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Nov 6, 2024

It’s no surprise that the cinematographer’s directorial feature debut is an alluring ghost story full of visual intrigue and surrealist imagery, giving him the space to showcase his strengths while working out some of the storytelling mechanics. Read full review

The Guardian Phil Hoad

Nov 6, 2024

Strangely, given Prieto’s visual acumen, the film is also a bit bland visually, bar a flashy prologue kicked off by the camera sinking into the bowels of the earth. But the story has enough residual power to deliver a dark night of the Mexican soul nonetheless. Read full review

IndieWire Christian Zilko

Nov 6, 2024

Even when the storytelling falls short, Pedro Páramo never fails to offer up ideas worth pondering. Read full review

Screen Rant Brennan Klein

Nov 7, 2024

Prieto also does manage to craft some beautiful images in the flashback sequences. While he doesn't harness his cinematography experience often enough to push the story forward visually, it is impossible to deny the power of certain images. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Nov 6, 2024

Where this rich, metaphysical text might have come alive in dreamlike abstraction, Prieto and his screenwriter, Mateo Gil, instead content themselves with a prestige Western on terra firma — grave, good-looking and uninspiring. Read full review

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