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By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 04 Jun 2018

It's a thrillingly layered film, and is perhaps best experienced by surrendering to its intoxicating strangeness…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 28 May 2018

The film might be a touch pretentious, but it is exhilarating in its rich textures and heady strangeness…

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By Hilary A White (243) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 28 May 2018

Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel is in spellbinding form in her first film in eight years…

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By Maria M. Delgado (4) for Sight and Sound (827) on 26 May 2018

A beguiling cinematic journey through identity formation in Latin America…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 24 May 2018

Martel has made a woozy epic about the toxicity of torpor…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 24 May 2018

Almost too well, and certainly too well to let us sit back comfortably, Martel has nailed colonialism as a living death…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 23 May 2018

Zama is a story that obviously has something of Beckett and Kafka, but creates worryingly plausible real-world evocations of their cosmic loneliness…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 22 May 2018

In adapting Antonio di Benedetto's 1956 novel for the screen, writer-director [Lucrecia] Martel offers a very different perspective on the…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 22 May 2018

The film puts us in a trance, too: one of bewildered, bottomless wonder…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 20 May 2018

There’s absolutely nothing else like it in theaters this year, which I mean as both a hearty endorsement and a necessary forewarning…

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By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 13 May 2018

There are times when Zama seems indecipherable and impenetrable, but for the most part, the sound design and images of expeditions and battles…

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By Ron Wilkinson (582) for It's Just Movies (121) on 11 May 2018

Just when you think it cannot get worse, you meet Zama…

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By Shawn Glinis (19) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 07 May 2018

I wouldn't be surprised to see Zama canonized as one of the more remarkable artistic achievements of this decade. It's certainly a standout of 2018…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 26 Apr 2018

Zama is unquestionably a Martel film... it's clear that we're in the hands of a master once more…

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By Robert Horton (590) for Seattle Weekly (293) on 26 Apr 2018

Gorgeous, sneakily funny, and amazing to hear, with its soundtrack of buzzing insects and screeching birds…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for The Progressive (5) on 26 Apr 2018

It's already one of 2018's best and most haunting films, and a lashing indictment of colonialist hubris…

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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 25 Apr 2018

Lisandro Alonso's Jauja remains the high-water mark of this burgeoning genre, but Martel's Zama is a worthy if not wholly satisfying addition…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 25 Apr 2018

The first thing to be said of Lucrecia Martel’s Spanish-language film is that it stands as a startling original…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 19 Apr 2018

It's a hypnotic story, and a wry commentary on civilization, which has changed less in the last 200-odd years than we might want to believe…

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By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 19 Apr 2018

The film makes a compelling portrait of how job assignments can eventually become jail sentences, and how years can drift into each other with…

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