An ambitious multi-plotted portrait of overlapping lives in contemporary Mexico City, Amores perros rarely relaxes its grip.
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06/07/01
Amores Perros (2001)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:101
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: The brutality of Amores Perros may be difficult to watch at times, but this intense, gritty film packs a hard wallop.
Reviews for Amores Perros
Recalling Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction - but edgier than both - this is a hell of a first film. For all its bonecrunching savagery, it's also a fundamentally moral work.
02/09/06
Top CriticGrabs our attention... Innaritu is a clever visual stylist.
09/10/01
This is first-rate filmmaking, horrific and tender, raw and lyrical.
05/18/01
Top CriticAstonishingly powerful debut film from director Inarritu - brilliantly shot, superbly acted and deeply heartfelt, this is one of the best films of the year.
10/30/02
A stunningly made film, raw and authentic, with the ability to get way under the skin.
12/10/01
The structure lacks purpose, the film struggles to justify its two-and-a-half-hour running time and the faint-hearted might find it a little gory.
05/15/01
Top CriticA head-on hit -- and a tasty treat for lovers of Tarantino-style feasts of fine visual excess.
03/30/01
That rarest of features that shows a deep understanding of people, truly cinematic storytelling technique and brilliantly choreographed fight and chase scenes.
12/08/02
It is that rarest of features that shows a deep understanding of people, truly cinematic storytelling technique and brilliantly choreographed fight and chase scenes.
12/06/05
A strange range of humanity that, if nothing else, provides some much-needed alternatives to typical Mexican stereotypes.
03/30/01
A film with something to say and a remarkably adult understanding of human passion and the crazy places it leads us.
03/30/01
One of the most honored and most expertly articulated Mexican films of recent years.
04/27/07
Solidly engaging, supersized 2000 Mexican drama.
02/08/08
Never fails to be smart, engaging, audacious and haunting.
04/12/01
A harrowing portrait.
04/27/01
Seemingly uneven, Questionably overlong, Indisputably intriguing
11/16/03
You know you're in the hands of a gifted storyteller.
04/19/01
A harrowing, powerful and often disturbing movie about three seemingly unrelated stories that collide after one horrific car accident in Mexico City.
12/01/05
Always clever, and devastating in its depiction of human nature.
03/30/01
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