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By David James (58) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 05 Apr 2015

Jauja may not be for everyone, but those who give it a chance will find a complex, beautiful film…

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By Luke Goodsell (126) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 31 Mar 2015

Mysteriously opaque and thrillingly spooky, Lisandro Alonso's Jauja evokes what many films aspire to yet rarely achieve: a genuine lucid state…

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By Dom Sinacola (87) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 27 Mar 2015

In his latest feature, the breathtaking Jauja, Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso demonstrates that he is the rare filmmaker who trusts his…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Mar 2015

Jauja makes one cryptic leap too many at the end, but until then it evocatively confounds…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 20 Mar 2015

The performances mesh beautifully with the filmmaking, which is more keenly attuned to fluctuations in the natural world that all but a handful…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 20 Mar 2015

Jauja is a rapturously bizarre movie that resists knowledge…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 Mar 2015

The rounded-off corners of the almost-square frames evoke early movies and antique photographs, and there is wit and mischief in the way Mr…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Mar 2015

Everything signals birth—of Argentina, cinema, the nuclear family—until Dinesen descends into a womb-like cave and Jauja takes a hard left…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Mar 2015

[Jauja features] some gorgeously observed tableaus but also stretches of dry tedium, hemmed in by a layered and mannered aesthetic…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 17 Mar 2015

There’s a line between artfully contemplative and just plain boring. This film eventually crosses it into Snoozeville…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Mar 2015

Even beyond its charismatic star, Jauja is captivating, not least because of Alonso's ability to capture the cruel beauty of the natural landscape…

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By Emma Simmonds (380) for The List (2,018) on 24 Feb 2015

A ponderously paced but artistically sure journey; it's a film that finds strength in the universality of its ideas and its spiritual dimension,…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 03 Feb 2015

Shot in an almost square ratio by Finland's minimalist cinematography master Timo Salminen, Jauja is a harsh, gorgeous dream that defies resolution…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for HitFix (861) on 29 May 2014

Intermittently playful, consistently confounding, finally petrified, it's a film of fussy, cultivated austerity…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

Perversely episodic, strangely empty, and unfolding in a series of beautifully composed but static wide shots (giving us the unusual experience…

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