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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80CineVueBen NicholsonCineVueBen NicholsonClearly modelled on a familiar western narrative, Pablo Fendrik's The Burning (2014) both embraces and playfully inverts the tropes that define its genre classification.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperHighly entertaining high camp.
- 63New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartBy the last battle, you may find yourself hoping that at least one person escapes without being macheted to death.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyWhile there's some novelty in using genre conventions to contemplate the sin of taming a wild frontier, the reverential film takes itself far too seriously; it ends up being neither sufficiently inventive nor revisionist to surmount its archetypal cliches.
- 50VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeFendrik seems more interested in the rich jungle surroundings than in the generic human struggle in the foreground, alternating between clunky setpieces (such as the sitting-duck rowboat shootout) and long stretches where the characters say nothing.
- 50Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezArdor is never boring, but it’s never all that engaging, either. Here is a movie that ends with a can’t-miss scenario — a siege on a farmhouse in which the heroes are vastly outnumbered and outgunned — yet still fails to ever quicken your pulse.
- 40Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonTime Out LondonTom HuddlestonWriter-director Pablo Fendrik takes the whole thing terribly seriously, punctuating the action with ponderous slo-mo and laughably pompous discussions about Bernal’s spirit jaguar.
- 40Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsToo bad that Ardor's arrhythmic editing and glacial pacing make it impossible to get lost in its jungles — or to invest in its pseudo-mystical ambiance.
- 38Slant MagazineCarson LundSlant MagazineCarson LundIt broods along as if it's expressing something monumentally important with each slow-as-molasses camera move.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreArdor, in the end, has little ardor, or originality or magic about it. It’s just a mundane C-movie action picture that tries to pass itself off as something deeper.