The structure lacks purpose, the film struggles to justify its two-and-a-half-hour running time and the faint-hearted might find it a little gory.
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05/15/01
Amores Perros (2001)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:101
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: The brutality of Amores Perros may be difficult to watch at times, but this intense, gritty film packs a hard wallop.
Runtime: 2 hrs 33 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $4,856,342
Synopsis: AMORES PERROS is a bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives,... [More]
Reviews for Amores Perros
There aren't many films coming out of Hollywood that work on this many levels.
05/14/01
The occasional juxtaposition of human copulation and dog-on-dog violence makes for a pretty sophomoric metaphor. Otherwise, the movie’s perception is on target.
05/14/01
In a single film, director Alejandro González Iñárritu balances stories and moods as diverse as canine breeds.
05/09/01
A tightly edited, wildly energetic paean to the trauma of relationships, between people and between people and their dogs.
05/08/01
Seething, unsettling.
05/07/01
Compels almost effortlessly, and skilfully conceals its thefts (from Tarantino, mostly), easy ironies, and insubstantiality.
05/07/01
An extraordinary cinematic feat.
05/07/01
It may not have won the Oscar, but this is ... an ambitious and thrilling work.
05/06/01
Inarritu and his cast are able to make the audience care for these deeply flawed characters and share their often intertwined feelings of pleasure and pain.
05/03/01
We end up completely fascinated with and at least partially caring about characters that otherwise would be decidedly less than sympathetic in any other situation.
05/03/01
Give me Los Olvidados instead, but this pumped telenovela is very much the film Kieslowski would have made had he followed Buñuel's lead and gone to Mexico.
05/02/01
[Inarritu] may well be the millennium's first new master film maker.
04/27/01
Stylishly gritty.
04/27/01
An eye-opening feat of technical prowess and storytelling.
04/27/01
A harrowing portrait.
04/27/01
Richly dramatic and resonates with complex emotions.
04/27/01
Embodies all the excitement we looked forward to after the dog days of Pulp Fiction.
04/26/01
"A compelling, savage breakthrough for Mexican cinema"
04/24/01
Inventively restless and relentlessly potent.
04/23/01
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