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2000
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Amores perros
Positive Reviews
48
Negative reviews
11
Average Rating
3.7
/5
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3.0
Fierce, loving, and electric, this movies got bite as well as bark.
EW
4.0
But the compelling characters and top notch acting make the film well worth viewing, if only for mature viewers who can handle the strong content and ..
Common Sense Media
4.5
Recalling Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction but edgier than both this is a hell of a first film. For all its bonecrunching savagery, its also a fundamen ..
Time Out
3.8
Manville: Oh dear, she needs to take a check, doesnt she Neeson: But being the professional I was, I went woof woof.
4.0
Finally theres a disheveled vagrant El Chivo, the goat played by legendary Mexican character actor Echevarra, who collects the citys homeless canines ..
5.0
Gonzalez Inarritus sinfully enjoyable epic roars in on a wave of blood, gunshots and dog barks.
E Film Critic
5.0
Inarritu doesnt give you a Mexico City thats a vista laden window on exotic locales.
San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
This is first rate filmmaking, horrific and tender, raw and lyrical.
4.5
Although Susana has sex with Octavio, she doesnt really want to leave her husband (Marco Perz), a thief.
Spirituality And Practice
3.0
Almost entirely a surface phenomenon, fascinating to look at but pretty empty beneath a raucously mesmerizing exterior.
One Guys Opinion
3.8
Irritus characters are full of life and earthy flaws, and things that are too much for them to comprehend.
Sover
3.8
This was done through clever dialogue and stylish filmmaking techniques.
ReelViews
4.0
To me, a film can be ultra realistic or ultra expressionistic, and it doesnt matter as long as some kind of human truth comes through.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.8
The tale stands on its own, though, as a study of delusion and impossible love.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
First time feature filmmakers, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, have crafted an extraordinary flick that will ..
2.0
He lives with his dogs in an old shack and secretly pines for his estranged daughter, who doesnt know hes alive.
Eric Ds Nider
4.5
We end up completely fascinated with and at least partially caring about characters that otherwise would be decidedly less than sympathetic in any oth ..
Screen It
4.5
A stunningly made film, raw and authentic, with the ability to get way under the skin.
Shadows On The Wall
4.5
Has the patience to glean real emotions from surreal situations and the intelligence not to offer up fake closure.
Pop Matters
5.0
Astonishingly powerful debut film from director Inarritu brilliantly shot, superbly acted and deeply heartfelt, this is one of the best films of the y ..
View London
1.5
Apart from the first story, the film just doesnt live up to its promise.
Film Journal International ..
4.5
For its more earthy treatment of celestially inspired repayment for our sins deserves serious consideration by the Academy.
Internet Reviews
1.9
The level of violence is so gratuitous and so disgusting that I picked up my coat several times and started to walk out, something I almost never do.
Internet Reviews
3.0
Amores Perros signals the bold, audacious, fiercely human and ultra violent feature directorial debut of Inarritu, a gifted Mexican director bound to ..
Emanuellevy
4.5
A film with something to say and a remarkably adult understanding of human passion and the crazy places it leads us.
Salon
4.5
Andrew L. Urban The first and final thirds of this arresting Mexican film succeed in delivering all the shocks and jolts it intends.
4.5
One of the most honored and most expertly articulated Mexican films of recent years.
Observer
5.0
It is that rarest of features that shows a deep understanding of people, truly cinematic storytelling technique and brilliantly choreographed fight an ..
Flim Threet
3.0
With colourful characterisation, fresh and natural performances from a mostly untried cast, and a soundtrack which betrays Gonzlez Irritus deejaying p ..
Bbc
5.0
sense that even hair trigger lives, always poised on the edge of self destructive lunacy, deserve to be sympathetically understood is Amores Perros re ..
Time
4.4
Inarritu and his cast are able to make the audience care for these deeply flawed characters and share their often intertwined feelings of pleasure and ..
Mr Brown Movies
4.5
Ablaze with a raft of vital portrayals and rich in meaning and implication.
Calendar Live
1.5
Succumbs to the dangers of such a fractured narrative practice: too much bravado, not enough soul.
Boxoffice Magazine
4.5
A head on hit and a tasty treat for lovers of Tarantino style feasts of fine visual excess.
E Online
1.5
Its good and good looking and features one of the best soundtracks in years ... but its also slick and schematic, weak on feeling and overly indebted ..
La Weekly
5.0
The heat of infidelity isnt a good precursor to a tepid everyday existence.
The Filmy Ap
4.5
Dozens of shoddy imitators have done nothing to disguise the wit of its narrative construction.
Antagony & Ecstasy
2.0
This compelling, lengthy (153 minutes) drama is Alejandro Gonzlez Irritus auspicious directorial debut.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
4.0
The biggest strength of Amores Perros is its display of humanity at its worst when it is driven by primal attachments.
Window To The Movies
4.5
But its an invigorating film filled with vivid performances, haunting scenes, and messy, intense emotions, a violent portrait of modern day Mexico Cit ..
Stream On Demand At Home
4.5
A tightly edited, wildly energetic paean to the trauma of relationships, between people and between people and their dogs.
Nitrate Online
4.4
The film is absolutely raw here, and there arent a lot of pulled punches in the depiction of the dog fighting.
Movie Martyr
0.5
triumph helped by a cast of unknown actors who more than meet the standards of Hollywood venismo is to give so lurid a sequence of events the force of ..
Archive Spectator
2.0
A harrowing, powerful and often disturbing movie about three seemingly unrelated stories that collide after one horrific car accident in Mexico City.
Week In Rewind
3.8
A debut in the industry that feels relevant after all these years. This is an epic story of power, poverty, love and guilt. .
3.0
... it is a hyperviolent movie against violence; a graphic portrayal of infidelity in the name of marriage; a tale of murderous sibling rivalry in the ..
Looking Closer
3.5
Of course, its trailers and posters dont lead anyone to expect a Latino film, but thats just what we get.
The Nation
3.8
Inarritus talent may be derivative, but its applied to a setting he knows well and whose vibrancy hes keen to convey.
Globe and Mail
4.0
It is a raw, intermittently brilliant film that heralds a sort of renaissance in Mexican film.
Gost Dog
1.5
A strange range of humanity that, if nothing else, provides some much needed alternatives to typical Mexican stereotypes.
Citysearch
3.5
Compels almost effortlessly, and skilfully conceals its thefts (from Tarantino, mostly), easy ironies, and insubstantiality.
Apollo Guide
2.0
Directed with energy and ferocity by eye opening newcomer Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu.
4.4
Fresh, shocking, violent, romantic, profane and profound, Amores Perros is a revelation, a jolt of cinematic power and a bracing act of faith.
4.5
Very few films create, as this one succeeds in doing, a fresh and individual sense of a complete world, and allow us to experience this sense as if it ..
Ny Books
4.4
First time director Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu has taken an original story and fashioned it into a tale that is gritty, multifaceted, and brimming with ..
Imdb
4.4
In a single film, director Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu balances stories and moods as diverse as canine breeds.
Lawrence Journal-World
4.4
The performances here are, again and again, natural and convincing, with many of the actors making their debuts.
Upcoming Movies
4.5
It may not have won the Oscar, but this is ... an ambitious and thrilling work.
4.5
Nominated for an Oscar as best foreign language film, its a movie thats all over the lot (and interestingly so).
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