The Bad Batch

"A bewitching fusion of The Road Warrior with Robert Rodriguez-style scorched-earth badassery and a mystical Western strain that tips its hat to Alejandro Jodorowsky's 'El Topo'" 

"Cannibals and Trump-style politics converge in Ana Lily Amirpour's striking but dissatisfying sci-fi mashup (...) Though there’s much to savor in the pic’s lavishly distressed visuals (...) its narrative feels increasingly stretched and desultory" 

"A film that frustratingly contains a good, or at least a fun movie, without actually being a good, or a particularly fun, movie" 

"Amirpour follows up 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' with another totally original genre experiment" 

"Ana Lily Amirpour’s menacing second film boasts impressive turns – including from Suki Waterhouse – but conforms to convention after a smart, chilling first act (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)" 

"Amirpour has also learned a few lessons from Kathryn Bigelow, embracing fluid editing rhythms that establish a setting's alluring alien-ness (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" 

"[It] falls flat (...) There's just not enough excitement or empathy (...) A disappointment" 

"Although a bit shaggier than her first attention-getting debut, 'The Bad Batch' is nevertheless a compelling work (...) Amirpour’s visual sensibility remains strikingly unique"