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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceScherson, adapting Roberto Bolaño's novel, incorporates surrealistic, hyper-expressive visual techniques, resulting in a film that is excitingly unclassifiable.
- 90The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMs. Scherson’s style — backed wholeheartedly by the cool cinematography of Ricardo de Angelis — may value mood over information, but it’s the perfect vehicle for a portrait of two damaged souls grasping for a security they no longer possess.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfIt’s wonderful to think that a movie is, for a change, ahead of you.
- 80The DissolveNoel MurrayThe DissolveNoel MurrayIl Futuro is a playful, soulful movie, affecting because it’s populated by lost children who can somehow sense they’re in a movie, and that in a movie, the only future is The End.
- 80Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe atmospheric heft of Il Futuro is invariably more bracing than oppressive, and in the complexly stoic Martelli and masterfully craggy, haunted Hauer, an alluringly opaque pas de deux of loss and uncertainty is wonderfully realized.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThoughtful and less sensationalistic than its premise might suggest, it's made for arthouses and offers a fine showcase for costar Rutger Hauer.
- 50Slant MagazineSlant MagazineA counterproductively "literary" film with no satisfying payoffs, Rutger Hauer's blind recluse notwithstanding.