La noche de enfrente 2012

Critics score:
93 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Raul Ruiz's elegiac, enigmatic and mischievous final film. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Elegiac, witty and deeply reflective, "Night Across the Street" strikes a mature and complex tone. Read more

Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter: A bizarre and baroque meditation on death, memory and the passage of time that ranks among the director's more cryptic works (of which there are several in his whopping 100+ feature filmography), though it does offer up a few pleasurable moments. Read more

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: It all has a sense of regret and almost relief. It haunts. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Ruiz's final film is one of the cinema's grandest, most graceful farewells to life. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Unusually suffused with the contrast between experience and memory, reality and surreality. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: The way Ruiz uses such giddy flourishes in the name of looking back on one's life is both thrillingly irreverent and surprisingly moving. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Pleasurably disorienting. Read more

Michelle Orange, Village Voice: These are the dreams of a man stepping out of this world, perhaps never more lucid and full of life. Read more