"It begins strongly with long, achingly slow takes showing us the day in the life of two undocumented Mexican day labourors as they struggle to find work.
The first half delves into a blend of mumblecore, slow burning scenes of stark and often deliberately drawn out banality that are more like snippets pulled randomly from a day regardless of what or what does not happen.
This approach, if you can get past it, works well at fleshing our two protagonists into people that feel like those you could bump into on the street - there is no deliberate tugging at heartstrings for easy sympathy, nor cheap, fetishising of poor falseness.
If this had continued and the explosive finale had been ten minutes this could have been something special. Instead, like Jekyll and Hyde, the second half changes into an unorthodox home invasion - slowly you stop caring as the scenes unfurl.
That being said, this does have one of the best crescendos I have seen in a long time. It's unfortunate the second half had to muddy the waters the first half set up"
- 5.5/10
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