At an undefined point in the future, high in the mountains of South America, a group of child soldiers guard a lone hostage and await orders from a mysterious benefactor. When they're attacked and forced to retreat into the jungle, things take a truly primal turn.
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It’s one intoxicating ride, akin to falling head first into a well of darkness that – despite its obvious influences – transcends its origins to become a unique nightmare of its own making.| Read in full: Monos film review We Love Cinema
An experience at once jagged and lyrical, brutal and beautiful, angry and abstract, scattered and wholly singular.Variety
Call it a collective character study or a perpetual-war film - Monos takes it cues from a number of well-known influences. But there's a specific, singular madness that's completely its own.Rolling Stone
Something between Apocalypse Now, Lord of the Flies and Embrace of the Serpent.The Guardian
Equal parts Lord of the Flies and Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Landes’ third feature distills guerrilla warfare into sheer anarchy.IndieWire
While sharing surface similarities with Cary Joy Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, Monos’s determination to stray from moralising or tugging the heartstrings over lost youth may frustrate some viewers. It is actually the film’s greatest strength.Sight & Sound
In his fourth feature film, writer-director Louis Garrel explores with wit and tenderness the risk and worth of second chances
A mountain trek intertwines with a road-building project, granting incisive, if underpowered, insight into a much underseen world
With none of the saving graces of Tetris, Air, or Barbie, this ambition-free look at the Beanie Baby craze is pure mediocrity
Celine Deveaux's French-Portuguese debut can be too quirky for its own good, but a fantastically written lead character keeps it afloat
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
