A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery(Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis)

The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

Spread over hours of poetic ramblings, the message loses most of its urgency.

The Film Stage by Giovanni Marchini Camia

An extraordinarily rich, initially exasperating, yet eventually marvelous postmodern epic.

Variety by Guy Lodge

A major disappointment from a major filmmaker, Diaz’s latest super-sized tapestry of historical fact, folklore and cine-poetry is typically ambitious in its expressionism — but sees the helmer venturing into the kind of declamatory, didactic rhetoric that his recent stunners “Norte, the End of History” and “From What Is Before” so elegantly avoided.

The Playlist by Nikola Grozdanovic

As aesthetically dazzling as this picture is, with hypnotic compositions carved through meticulous mise-en-scene, there are certain conventional lines which — when crossed — must warrant good reason. In this case, the activity on the screen must be immersive and interesting enough to balance out the physical endurance asked of the viewer by the creator.