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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 12 May 2016

Visually ravishing and sexually provocative, Neon Bull offers an unforgettable portrait of a changing Brazil, at once earthy and arty…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 11 May 2016

The film is filthy with nuanced moments of fierce, sweaty intimacy, all shot with a precise eye for detail…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 11 May 2016

Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro's Neon Bull finds grim economic commentary in the lives of a handful of people who work in a rodeo, tending…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 May 2016

There's talent on view here, but in service of a questionable proposition, with the whole thing tiptoeing toward the exploitative…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 04 May 2016

So there’s talent on view here, but in service of a questionable proposition, with the whole thing tiptoeing toward the exploitative…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2016

The wordless way that they click suggests a sexual telepathy, there's real tenderness in their sounds and movements, and the characters seem…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Apr 2016

The languid pace and barnyard earthiness won't be to everybody's taste, but it's hard to deny Mascaro's vision…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 07 Apr 2016

The latest example of what I call an emperor’s-new-clothes film is Neon Bull…

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By Mallory Andrews (58) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 07 Apr 2016

The minutiae of rodeo life depicted in Neon Bull have the quality of a fly-on-the-wall documentary…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 06 Apr 2016

Neon Bull is a profound reflection on the intersection of the human and bestial…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Apr 2016

Writer-director Gabriel Mascaro doesn’t really have a story to tell about these folks, but he does have a wealth of almost documentary-style…

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By John Powers (147) for NPR (1,713) on 05 Apr 2016

Mascaro plops us into a back-country reality most of us have never seen and reveals it to be stranger and dreamier than we might think…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Apr 2016

No matter how rigorously worked out each shot and its action might be, Neon Bull always honors the chaotic looseness of everyday living —…

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By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 17 Mar 2016

With scalpel-like precision, Gabriel Mascaro's second narrative feature frankly yet effortlessly explores sexuality, environmental issues,…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2016

Everything in the film is understood to be a subsumed sex act, with actual sex serving as a contextualizing catharsis…

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By Jacqueline S (64) on 04 Mar 2016

Filme pra gringo ver e querer fazer turismo sexual no Brasil…

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By Luciene C (100) on 09 Feb 2016

Mas um espécime cinematográfico brasileiro que começa em um lugar razoável e vai dar com os burros em lugar nenhum…

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By Alailson B (274) on 18 Jan 2016

Elenco em altíssimo nível. Mas o destaque fica para a direção e o roteiro, espetaculares…

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By André B (153) on 09 Jan 2016

O filme tem imagens poderosas, sensuais, encantadoras. Chega a emocionar em vários momentos. Também tem ótimas atuações…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Dec 2015

Mascaro’s film is an auspicious, original, and absorbing work that thrills with its look into this little-seen world and the dreamers that…

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