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Japón, isn’t just the wildest eruption of the current Mexican film boom, it's the most fascinating new picture I've seen this year.Full Review

John Powers
L.A. Weekly

Some filmmakers give us dreams and false worlds in which we can find refuge. For others, though, like the young Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas, the movies aren't an escape from the world but a way more deeply into it.Full Review

Manohla Dargis
Los Angeles Times

A notably confident and achieved debut.Full Review

J. Hoberman
Village Voice

Its powerfully visual storytelling delivers great rewards as the meditative drama moves into increasingly complex, at times confrontational territory.Full Review

David Rooney
Variety

This crudely powerful film is a throwback. Unfolding at an elliptical pace that feels like a revelation, or tedium, or both, Japon recalls the glory days of 1970s art-house filmmaking.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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