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The New York Times by Andy Webster
The Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj’s leisurely comedy-drama The Apostate has its charms, though the story (and its hero) could benefit from a tarter approach.
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Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard
The Apostate finds humor in unusual images or situations, few resounding with lasting impact.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Jonathan Holland
Despite his clear interest in matters philosophical, Veiroj has a built-in anti-pomp detector and The Apostate, with its winsomely shambling central character, is always deft, engaging and teeming with ideas.
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Screen International by Lee Marshall
Like the film, the soundtrack doesn’t quite know where it’s going, but it takes us on a curious and often engaging stroll.
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Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Ogalla makes it happen: Bedroom-eyed and shaggy, looking every inch like a reincarnation of dead-too-soon ‘70s French star Patrick Dewaere but without the haywire intensity, he's an amiable spectacle.
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Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
It’s a movie that ultimately may mean more to those raised in heavily Catholic cultures, but it has an engaging prickliness as a satiric peek into the life of a brooding idealist.
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Gonzalo’s dalliances add up to precious little, but Veiroj’s comic tone finds purchase in his absurd run-ins with the bishop and a church so unwilling to lose a member from the rolls that they’ll stick him in a bureaucratic roundabout until he gives up.