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  Review by maria ★★★★ 16

  hey academy, think you forgot something bitch

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  Review by Sean Baker 13

  Went in knowing nothing and loved the journey. Beautiful, tense and totally engaging. And amazing stunts and FX. Not sure how they had Moises Arias and Julianne Nicholson tumbling down violent rapids. Would love to know about the making of this film... seems like an intense shoot.

  Anyone know how I can see director Alejandro Landes's first film Porfirio?

  Watched at Arclight Hollywood.

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  Review by karsten ★★★½ 16

  Lotta wet clothes in this film, can’t imagine how uncomfortable. Like all the sand and dirt rubbing up against your skin? Sheesh. A consistently dark and foggy film. There’s no room for a breather which, in a lot of ways works, and in some ways feels like something the film desperately needs. Rico killed it!

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  Review by iana ★★★★ 6

  completely intoxicating. that mica levi score! i actually think the vagueness around its politics is a strength—you stay with these kids the whole time with no idea what they’re fighting for, and that’s pretty damn disturbing! a must-see in cinemas (if you can!)

  rico, my boy!!! whodathunk the real star from hannah montana was moises arias!!!

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  Review by BrandonHabes ★★★★½ 10

  MONOS exists on another planet, a perilous edge of the world fantasy that injects you with a syringe of Lord of the Flies + Aguirre, the Wrath of God. A brutal, unflinching fever dream that takes you hostage for 102min, starves you of its sociopolitical context, then forces you to survive its guerrilla anarchy. These are the lost boys and girls of Neverland. A dysfunctional young militia being trained for a war they can hardly understand, pushed to revolution more by hormones and insecurity than by clear, specific ideology. 

  The bare, almost feral mystery of being thrown into their savage world without any kind of guidance creates an immediate you-are-there ferocity. Faint echos of a larger Civil War loom on…

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 13

  Hoop-tober (hopefully), #18:

  I am barely able to type right now, because my hands & fingers are shaking; I can only hope that Landes realizes the legendary scope of what he and his cast & crew have created here. No other filmmaker, today, is still making movies like this — it is, rather, in the same league as the very darkest and most intense of 70s Coppola (Apocalypse Now), Herzog (Aguirre: the Wrath of God) & Friedkin (Sorcerer). An instant classic and, speaking of things classic, Mica Levi, while still at dawn in her compositional career, is proving herself to be an unmatched master of the film score. Everything about this work is straight up perfect from start to finish — technically, thematically, et cetera — and yet I dread the day I first re-watch it. Already prepping for the nightmares.

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  Review by Paul Elliott ★★★★★ 3

  Shot on location in some of the remotest regions of Colombia, and under one of the most punishing production shoots, Monos is a war drama that is both visually and psychologically disturbing. Set in an unspecified location, it establishes a barely organised group of teenage guerrilla fighters with combat nicknames known collectively as the "Monos", and it doesn't take long for the guns and hormones to impel things into dangerous and destructive territories.

  It's mesmerising in its exotic allure with sharp editing cuts and unpredictable camera work eliciting a concerted effort on the part of the filmmakers to give the film a distinct look. It narratively stretches from the territories of Lord of the Flies before swerving into spheres more…

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  Review by Manny Liotta🍒 ★★★★ 10

  Besides getting high from the fact that Paul Thomas Anderson walked in and sat a few rows behind me right before the movie started THEN myself having a conversation with him about Punch-Drunk Love afterwards, i am strictly stoned from the visceral experience of this stunning look at warfare and survival. It’s dreamy and loose. It feels like a raging river flowing endlessly from scene to scene without any sense of control. The soundtrack ripped my fucking head off of my body. The visuals and camerawork will make you drool. This was a crazy fucking experience, from meeting one of my favorite filmmakers by a chance encounter to seeing something so gnarly onscreen.

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  Review by LeSchroeck ★★★★½ 7

  Ja. Es ist Werner Herzogs "Full Metal Apocalypse of the Flies". Und das ist mit das Schlechteste, das ich über dieses Kraftwerk sagen kann.

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★ 3

  "Who is the greatest hero of all time?"

  Monos is saved by a stunning performance by Julianne Nicholson. Her character's plight isn't developed well, but we find out her situation after certain events unfold.

  The film was incredibly slow and was full of dead space. For a movie that is about a guerrilla army in the Colombian rainforest, I was hoping for a little more. This movie was shown at the Aero Theatre right after Strangers of Patience, so by the end of this film, I had enough of seeing women tied up. Quite enough, thank you.

  Vegan alert:
  -Anything horrible that can be done to a cow, they do to their cow named "Shakira". I can't list them all here, as it would give away the story, but keep in mind that it's graphic and horrible.
  -A decapitated pig's head is featured.
  -Additional references to meat.

  Additional violence to humans is featured.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 9

  do you ever just cry when a film is THAT good??? immediately added to the list of films that are inevitably going to haunt me for the rest of my life!!!!! i can’t get that whistle noise out of my head oOf THAT SCORE THO!!!!! AH THIS SURE WAS A FINE PIECE OF CINEMA!!!!!

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  Review by muriel

  they are literally just vibing