American Honey

Lane is a find -- bruised, soft, dreamy, hopeful -- and the film is at its strongest exploring the erotic chemistry between her and LaBeouf.

It's bold, captivating cinema, with a soundtrack that threatens to never leave your head.

At nearly three hours, "American Honey" is the most indulgent movie of the year, and the one in most need of a serious trim. It makes its point early on and then keeps repeating it until the honey turns sour.

Writer-director Andrea Arnold artfully sets love against money and manages one of the best endings in recent memory.

Too long by at least an hour, American Honey is a movie that would have had more to say if it said less. It is ultimately like a Jim Jarmusch movie without a sense of humour.

In the hands of British writer/director Andrea Arnold, one of the most talented women making movies today, the film has a lusty primal quality that is threatening and hard to resist.

Though it may come off as Malick for hip-hop-loving millennials, Arnold's film is a surprisingly poignant experience, a sprawling yet intimate odyssey through Middle America, and a bracingly honest portrait of emerging adulthood.

A quirky road movie that explores the vast areas of unemployment and poverty in midwest US, precisely those regions that felt disfavored and ignored by Washington's power elites. [Full review in Spanish]

It sounds like a mess, yet this film is anything but -- Star's journey, hustling across an America split by the rich-poor divide, is the most lyrical trip you will experience in ages.

Sasha Lane's nuanced performance helps to make sense of Star's experience as they range between magical and the capitalist realities.

An electrifying endless of rudeness, detours, affective shortcuts and ogresque tenderness. [Full review in Spanish]

The film enjoys its moments of sweet hopelessness but at the end, in a sane way, this is a story of youthful hope. The US needs that as much as we all do.