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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 04 Nov 2022

As the film floats on, drifting from one extravagantly engineered reverie to another, the filmmaker only occasionally succeeds in making the…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 02 Nov 2022

As with all of Iñárritu’s films, “Bardo” isn’t just deeply felt but impassioned to the max, with grand designs to not just plunge…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 04 Sep 2022

Iñárritu has a flair for the cinematic, for bold and striking images, but he is not an experimental filmmaker…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Sep 2022

Iñárritu, rather than answering them or leaving them provocatively unanswered (either one would be fine), does what he seems to do with most…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 03 Sep 2022

It’s impossible to deny the strength of the startling array of thoughts and concepts which Inarritu has brought to life and, ultimately,…

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By Luke Hicks (31) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Sep 2022

When it’s all said and done—the technical marvels elucidated, the stylistic flare appreciated, the wide-eyed self-reflection given a fair…

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By Brian Formo (125) for Collider (1,032) on 02 Sep 2022

Iñárritu has always been heavy-handed but his attempt to be airier creates more areas to bloat. And it gets incredibly unwieldy at points…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Sep 2022

Audiences’ staying power for this meandering existential exploration of personal, professional and national identity — as tragicomic as…

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By Jane Crowther (96) for Total Film (3,532) on 01 Sep 2022

Though ambitious and visually stunning (gorgeous cracked deserts, beautiful beaches, houses filled with sand), it’s willfully elusive and…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 01 Sep 2022

It is made with real panache – so much panache, in fact, that you can forgive much of the film’s outrageous narcissism…

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By Jack King (15) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Sep 2022

For all of the visual treats on display and for the moving moments that are better left unspoiled, nobody thought to withhold this director’s…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Sep 2022

With “Bardo,” Iñárritu delivers a cartoonishly indulgent film about the fact that he makes cartoonishly indulgent films — a rootless…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 01 Sep 2022

Iñárritu has cooked up a personal epic of the most exhaustingly swaggery type, man-spread across three hours of screen time during which…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Sep 2022

So why is “Bardo,” for all its skill, reach-for-the-stars aspiration, and majestic sweep, such a windy, confounding, and — okay, I’ll…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 01 Sep 2022

Iñárritu has a lot on his mind here, weighing the sins and graces of personal and public history, and attempting to atone for some of it…

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By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 01 Sep 2022

Whether talking to himself or talking at his audience as if delivering wisdom deserving of an inscription on stone tablets, Iñárritu has…

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By Carlos Aguilar (278) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 Sep 2022

Throughout the film’s warranted nearly-three-hour runtime, Iñárritu writes the cinematic verses of an oneiric love poem to an ever-incongruous…

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