The Revenant's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
"Alejandro G. Iñarritu, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and a vast team of visual effects wizards have created a sensationally vivid and visceral portrait of human endurance under very nearly intolerable conditions."
Empire
"DiCaprio's raw performance helps elevate what could have been just another man-versus-nature drama".
The Guardian
What is so distinctive about this Iñárritu picture is its unitary control and its fluency: no matter how extended, the film?s tense story is under the director?s complete control and he unspools great meandering, bravura travelling shots to tell it: not dissimilar, in some ways, to his previous picture, Birdman. The movie is as thrilling and painful as a sheet of ice held to the skin.
The Wrap
Iñárritu has brought in 'The Revenant' that kind of intensive focus to the uncharted wilderness, and the payoff is a nerve-wracking marvel.
Cinemanía
Iñárritu dances with wolves and searching ecstasy on a wild adventure. DiCaprio and Hardy make the most epic dirty work.
Hitfix
'The Revenant' may not be his best film yet, but it's hard to imagine many filmmakers who are working at a higher level than he is these days.
El Mundo
The result is reported as irregular and excessive as essential: an exercise in radical film that is hard to deny the power of the shock.
The Telegraph
"I?m not sure The Revenant is quite as tough and uncompromising as it thinks it is. But there?s no question it?s an extraordinary, blood-summoning, sinew-stiffening ride".
New York Times
Mr. Iñárritu isn?t content to merely seduce you with ecstatic beauty and annihilating terror; he wants to blow your mind, to amp up your art-house experience with blockbuster like awesomeness.
Clarin
The film abbreviates, glorifies and expands two themes that Hollywood is squeezing and ultimately widening: The overcoming and revenge.
Fotogramas
An excellent adventure film, all technical and dramatic prodigy which relates with the best classic western Revisionist 70s.
Entertainment Weekly
Gorgeously shot by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Iñárritu?s savage endurance test of a film almost works better as a series of stunning images and surreal sequences than as an emotionally satisfying story.
ABC
The constant stress, savoring the suffering, intrigue, persecution, resistance (...) A clear desire to connote.
La Vanguardia
'The Revenant' shudders you, largely because of its strength and the truth of its powerful images.
Variety
In aiming to steer his dark, fatalistic vision toward something genuinely contemplative and cathartic, Inarritu has managed to appropriate the beauty of Malick?s filmmaking but none of its sublimity ? another word for which might be humility. There is plenty of amazement here, to be sure, but all too little in the way of grace.
El País
Attend to what I have no heat nor cold, I feel the terrible ordeal of the protagonist, and I can not believe that, even someone as legendary as Leonardo DiCaprio, can continue to live infinite degrees below zero.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote