Metacritic reviews

Some metaphors score and some miss, but this is leap-of-faith cinema: the rewards entail some risks.

The issue with Post Tenebras Lux is that the narrative, not the filmmaker, feels dispiritedly half-baked.

Carlos Reygadas's latest, an almost impossibly intellectual film, keeps us at a remove that's as striking as that which separates its main character from the lower classes.

An irritating, baffling, fascinating film.

The film’s said to be autobiographical, but that’s entirely left to us to guess.

Post Tenebras Lux is certainly unique, but Reygadas is often intensely more interested in provoking his audience than actually fleshing out his heady ideas.

There's visual poetry here, in small doses, but it doesn't take long for one's patience to run out.

The title, signifying “light after darkness,” derives from the Latin translation of the Book of Job, an appropriate source given that a considerable amount of the prophet’s proverbial patience is required. Not that the pic doesn’t have its frequent rewards.

Reygadas' big ideas translate with mixed results.

Pretty pictures alone do not in themselves great cinema make - not for the first time, Reygadas' waywardly wilful approach to screenwriting and structure severely outweighs whatever fleeting pleasures his movies may impart.