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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Nov 2017

What makes Most Beautiful Island standout, however, is that it isn’t just about desperation…

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By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Nov 2017

The second half is chilling and well directed, culminating in a high-wire act of a finale…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 10 Nov 2017

modestly suspenseful and unsettling without turning heavy-handed…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 03 Nov 2017

It's a tense movie, made both more personal and more unnerving by Asensio's insistence on staying with her protagonist, as the tension of her…

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By Simon Abrams (730) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 03 Nov 2017

Until her plight becomes emotionally engaging during the film's creepy finale 20-30 minutes, watching Most Beautiful Island is an unproductively…

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By Andy Webster (339) for New York Times (5,786) on 02 Nov 2017

Dark corners of the immigrant experience in New York City, especially for women, are frighteningly dramatized in Ana Asensio’s suspense film…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 Nov 2017

Anchored by Asensio's fearless and gripping performance, Most Beautiful Island directs an unflinching point of view toward an often invisible…

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By Tatiana Craine (32) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Nov 2017

As a rumination on the experiences of undocumented immigrants, Most Beautiful Island presents an extreme example of what people will do to…

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By Budd Wilkins (46) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Nov 2017

An intense and sometimes claustrophobic allegory about the pitfalls of the immigrant experience under the generic disguise of a psychological…

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By Liam Dunn (20) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 08 Oct 2017

a fascinating and tense low budget film drawn from real life inspiration…

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By Henry Stewart (71) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 23 Jun 2017

Many genre movies in which bad things happen to women end with them fighting back, but here, as people surely would in real life, they just…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 05 Apr 2017

Most Beautiful Island summons viewers into its seductive web, lashing out with teeth-grinding tension when you least expect it…

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By Kristy Puchko (422) for Pajiba (523) on 20 Mar 2017

The story Asensio spins is delicate and threatening, like a spider's web. The suspense woven through the third act is nauseating, and a bit sublime…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Mar 2017

The movie’s payoff is every bit as delicious as its build-up…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Indiewire (3,631) on 16 Mar 2017

Creating a lucid sense of reality only so that she can defile it with a wicked pivot towards madness, Asensio’s film creates a vision of…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Mar 2017

There's much to admire about Most Beautiful Island, with its highly original spin on the immigrant survival story and its compelling protagonist,…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 16 Mar 2017

The pivotal scenes may be fictionalised, but the prickling, precarious threat is clammily authentic and inspired by the experiences of the…

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