Animal Kingdom

Wild, gritty, and sharp, Animal Kingdom has a ticking bomb for a heartbeat that pulsates through every scene.

Seldom is a debut feature handled with such assurance and intelligence

Seldom is a debut feature handled with such assurance and intelligence

An ambitious and effective thriller.

Animal Kingdom is skilfully lit and edited and the performances are remarkable.

Writer/director David Michod handles his material with great confidence, allowing some powerful acting.

Animal kingdom is contemporary realism, but Mechod entwines insinuations of a Greek tragedy or Shakespearian drama. [Full review in Spanish]

David Michôd for President! In all seriousness, this is a fantastically effective film.

Animal Kingdom is a slow burning, complex, and sprawling crime epic.

Michôd's fatal flaw is creating a movie that rides on the tropes and successes of past crime movies in such a vainglorious manner, that he forgets that sympathetic, or even interesting characters make or break a film.