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The seven stories knit together well, and provide an engrossing and alternative view of a city whose image has long been absorbed into popular culture

Like most portmanteau films, Destricted is a fitfully rewarding and frequently frustrating affair.

A day-glo postmortem avant-garde mind-trip that for some will be enlightening, while others will find it to be little more than an endurance test.

For all its confrontational posturing, there are moments when the film fails to take the leap into the abyss.

Gaspar Noe's film is that rare cinematic achievement, a truly original work that grips you by the neck and forces you to watch something so ugly, your mind bleeds.

None of the characters seem grounded in any kind of reality.

The most restrained and yet audacious, unadorned and still intelligent picture the Argentinian auteur has made.