Robe of Gems
| Release Date: September 15, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
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Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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4
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2
Negative:
0
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88
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassSep 11, 2023
A Bolañesque waking nightmare, the film insists that we come to terms with it rather than straightforwardly enjoy it. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan HollandFeb 16, 2022
A visually stunning, thoughtful, and profoundly unsettling study of the impact of male violence on the lives of three women played out in the pitiless sunlight of rural southern Mexico, Natalia López Gallardo’s feature debut Robe Of Gems is creepy in all the right ways. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 16, 2022
It is a disturbing and unsettling piece of work, a psycho-pathological moodboard of a film, in which guilt, horror and shame poison the atmosphere. Read full review
75
The Film StageJared MobarakFeb 16, 2022
Robe of Gems isn’t an easy film. Its harrowing content is devoid of optimism and its pacing ensures we wallow in the resulting suffering even if very little of it is actually shown on-screen. Read full review
60
VarietyMichael NordineFeb 16, 2022
The problem, then, is that too much of this is dispiriting without also being enlightening — the view Gallardo takes is almost that of a bird’s eye, showing much from an emotional remove but revealing little beyond surface-level horrors and characters so numb to it all that we’re left with little choice but to feel the same way. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerFeb 16, 2022
[López Gallardo] tends to eschew straightforward storytelling for something so elusive that her film nearly escapes us for its first half, until the pieces gradually fit together and we manage to make some sense of the plot, if not entirely what the director is going for. Read full review
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