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Reygadas asks audiences to plunge headlong into his chaotic vision of the world, no questions asked but complete trust required. Not everyone is going to be willing or able to take this leap of faith, but those who do go along with Reygadas may well feel they have come away having undergone a stunning revelatory experience.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

Working again with Diego Martnez Vignatti, the cinematographer for "Japn," the director doesn't just seize our attention; he commands it - forcing us into a world of terror and beauty.Full Review

Manohla Dargis
The New York Times

Battle In Heaven is like a serious of artful photographs, except that Reygadas also moves the camera in astonishing and unusual ways, swooping around the conventional x- and y-axes while teasing the audience with what he's about to show. He's got an astonishing technique. Here's hoping that someday he'll use it to make a movie.Full Review

Noel Murray
The Onion (A.V. Club)

With relentless and ruminative deliberateness, Reygadas shows us a Mexico City that seems to be decaying from the inside out.Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

Reygadas is clearly out to shock us, to shake us and show us a host of furious ideas about class, gender, religion, nationality, love - really, there's very little he doesn't throw into this thickly ambiguous stew. If only he hadn't made his deliberately confusing, heavily symbolic story quite so difficult to digest.Full Review

Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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