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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Martel's sharp observations of the foibles of human nature are expressed perfectly in the telling images of cinematographer Hugo Colace and tight editing of Santiago Ricci. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    As La Ciénaga perspires from the screen, it creates a vision of social malaise that feels paradoxically familiar and new. Read full review

  • 80
    L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor

    Martel's off-the-cuff candor and intelligent eye for the quietly telling detail charts the progressive rot not only of a family, but of an entire social class. Read full review

  • 80
    New York Magazine | Peter Rainer

    There's a new sensibility at work here, wry yet lushly disaffected, and it will be worth watching what Martel does next. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Eddie Cockrell

    An atmospheric and cumulatively impressive feature-length debut from Argentine writer-director Lucrecia Martel. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    The triumph of La Cienaga lies in Martel's way of fashioning the kind of ensemble performance that draws us in by convincing us we're watching behavior, not acting. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It's better to know going in that you're not expected to be able to fit everything together, that you may lose track of some members of the large cast, that it's like attending a family reunion when it's not your family and your hosts are too drunk to introduce you around. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    A fascinating, damning picture of bourgeois boredom that manages to be both epic and intimate at the same time. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marrit Ingman

    Doesn't necessarily make for a crowdpleasing experience, though it is a provocative and uncomfortably authentic one. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    It sounds churlish to argue that a movie can have too much integrity for its own good, but that's exactly the problem with La Ciénaga. Read full review

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