Village Voice by Melissa Anderson

Referents and identities are always slightly unfixed in Neruda, a film that reaches dizzying, exhilarating velocity by flouting the conventions of its hidebound genre.

Variety by Jay Weissberg

Surprises always come at the end of Pablo Larraín’s films, when everything suddenly comes together and the audience sits in the cinema feeling both illuminated and floored. Neruda is no different, representing the director at his stunning best with a work of such cleverness and beauty, alongside such power, that it’s hard to know how to parcel out praise.

CineVue by John Bleasdale

Gnecco has both breadth and subtlety. His Neruda is a complex and fascinating character study, a man fastidiously vain of his status but unconvinced by his own performance even as he enraptures a nation.

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

A dexterous, mischievous, almost incomprehensibly intelligent film that has such invention packed into every frame that the only real danger is overload, Neruda works most thrillingly as an effusive love letter to the very concept of fiction and all the ways it can set you free, written in lyrical but staccato meter, perhaps with a rose between the teeth.

Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang

Although informed by the busy workings of history, politics and personal affairs, Neruda proceeds like a light-footed chase thriller filtered through an episode of “The Twilight Zone,” by the end of which the audience is lost in a crazily spiraling meta-narrative. Who exactly is the star and author of that narrative is one of the film’s more enticing mysteries.

We Got This Covered by Lauren Humphries-Brooks

An exuberant visual poem reflecting the life and politics of the Chilean poet, Neruda is much more than a simple biopic.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

Neruda is a dream of Chile, of what it was and might have been, brought to the screen by a master dreamer.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Eva Salinas

Is Neruda a cinematic play, a poem, a biopic? In this near-perfect homage to a literary giant, it’s all open to interpretation.

Slant Magazine by Oleg Ivanov

Pablo Larraín has captured Pablo Neruda in all of his pomposity, pretense, courage, and undeniable genius.

TheWrap by Claudia Puig

Neruda raises thought-provoking questions, offers no easy answers, and does it in with top-notch performances and a cinematic style that is intellectually, artistically and thematically compelling.