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Biutiful

Play trailer Poster for Biutiful R,  2011,  2h 27m,  Drama/ Romance Play Trailer Watchlist
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65% Tomatometer 150 Reviews 75% Popcornmeter 10,000+ Ratings
Uxbal, a career criminal, plies his trade in Barcelona's underground sweatshops and back alleys. Unlike his associates, he has some respect for the poor workers under his thumb and is a devoted father. Told that he is ill and has just a few months to live, Uxbal tries to get his affairs in order before the spirits, with whom he communes, come to claim him.
Biutiful

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Critics Consensus

Javier Bardem's searing performance helps to elevate Biutiful, as does Alejandro González Iñárritu's craftsmanship, but the film often lapses into contrivance and grimness.

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Shubhra Gupta The Indian Express Apr 3, 2019
2.5/5
What kept me glued was the leading man whose increasingly ravaged eyes reflect a thousand tragedies with such ease: [Javier] Bardem is truly 'biutiful'. Go to Full Review
Caryn James Newsday Feb 7, 2018
Irritu's trademark interwoven plots have one thread too many here, but this shattering experience-earthbound and fraught with the afterlife-is worth every undying minute. Go to Full Review
Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online Sep 8, 2017
A+
Do yourself a favor and treat yourself to Biutiful. Go to Full Review
Jordan Brooks Vague Visages Aug 1, 2023
While Iñárritu’s tactics can become tiresome over multiple views, he is perhaps one of the greatest, single-experience filmmakers working today. Go to Full Review
Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 3, 2020
3.5/4.0
It is a heartfelt, beautifully constructed, heartbreaking and, at times, difficult to watch downer. Go to Full Review
Felicia Feaster Charleston City Paper Jan 21, 2020
Biutiful is a vision of a society that has broken down into layers of corruption, whose murk and misery can recall future-shock yarns like Blade Runner. Go to Full Review
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Albus R Jan 15, 2019 I love everything about the movie the story line, actors, and the way it was directed.
Leia S Aug 12, 2018 hauntingly poignant to a point where the audience surrenders itself in its belle.. Biutiful 3 Out Of 5 Biutiful is a character driven dramatic feature about a father figured personality that breathes for its metaphorical children till the end. Clocking for almost 150 minutes, Inarritu adequately puts all of his guns on the table and narrows it down on such simplistic terms, which can even communicate to a 4 year old kid; not something that everyone can achieve. Having said that, the concepts that the audience works on, in its initial stages seems to have shucked away for its own closure; it had the potential to end on a higher ideal than it does in here. As always, the camera work is amazing and up-close that is handled manually to achieve more closeness with the viewers through character's perspective. The writing is elaborative, adaptive and enough to feed off the audience to its run-time but what's itchy in here, is its nature to restart the clock every now and then as it jumps to another sequence of the feature, where clearly it was supposed to flow and resume the clock. As mentioned, Inarritu has clearly poured his soul into its project for there barely lies a weak spot on execution in the entire feature. And then all the work lies upon Bardem to pull it off on performance objective which he does convincingly. Inarritu's world is a stage where the rehearsal is prior to the final act hence there is a raw beauty present in the air that makes its anatomy more eye-catching. Stunning cinematography, fine production design, manipulative emotional drama and stellar performance are the high points of the feature. Biutiful is hauntingly poignant to a point where the audience surrenders itself in its belle, but overly chewed love letters like such often finds itself lost in a closet. See more
Dec 25, 2017 great piece of artwork
Abraham S Dec 7, 2017 Biutiful is a movie capable of infuse a deep sense of poverty and misery. It also has a particular perk: although Uxbal is a person who lives outside the boundaries of law, he has a deep kind side, but even in the occasions in which he tries to do some good, we remember he's not as good as someone might think. See more
Luke G Jun 16, 2017 Rather than tell how the movie looks, it's sad how hypocritically these so called critics species are. They let a really worst kind overrated and the vice versa to a brilliant one. See more
Theodore W Feb 11, 2017 I didn't like this movie. Yes, Bardem's performance is outstanding. Yes, direction is awesome, as always. But why does the director need to shot a pessimistic film for the sake of pessimism alone? The life is so bad according to this movie and there's no way one is able to change that. I don't see the point. See more
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Movie Info

Synopsis Uxbal, a career criminal, plies his trade in Barcelona's underground sweatshops and back alleys. Unlike his associates, he has some respect for the poor workers under his thumb and is a devoted father. Told that he is ill and has just a few months to live, Uxbal tries to get his affairs in order before the spirits, with whom he communes, come to claim him.
Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Producer
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Fernando Bovaira, Jon Kilik
Screenwriter
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo, Nicolás Giacobone
Distributor
Roadside Attractions
Production Co
Menage Atroz, Ikiru Films, Mod Producciones
Rating
R (Drug Use|Disturbing Images|Language|Nudity|Some Sexual Content)
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 28, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 31, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$5.1M
Runtime
2h 27m
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