
Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.... (Full plot summary below)
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Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.
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| Silver Screen RiotMatt OakesA tragic immigrant story married to a Polanski-esque social horror film. |
| Village VoiceTatiana CraineAs a rumination on the experiences of undocumented immigrants, Most Beautiful Island presents an extreme example of what people will do to scrape by — but it does so without belittling its vulnerable characters. |
| PajibaKristy PuchkoThe story Asensio spins is delicate and threatening, like a spider's web. The suspense woven through the third act is nauseating, and a bit sublime. |
| Bloody DisgustingTrace ThurmanA powerful debut for Asensio, who is able to accomplish so much with so little. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakWhat makes Most Beautiful Island standout, however, is that it isn’t just about desperation. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeThe movie’s payoff is every bit as delicious as its build-up. |
| IndiewireDavid EhrlichCreating a lucid sense of reality only so that she can defile it with a wicked pivot towards madness, Asensio’s film creates a vision of immigrant life in America (and its value) that’s all the more urgent for how it uses genre elements to exaggerate the experience. |
| New York TimesAndy WebsterDark corners of the immigrant experience in New York City, especially for women, are frighteningly dramatized in Ana Asensio’s suspense film Most Beautiful Island, a modest but effective writing-directing debut. |
| Slant MagazineHenry StewartMany genre movies in which bad things happen to women end with them fighting back, but here, as people surely would in real life, they just take the money and run. |
| SciFiNowJonathan HatfullIt's so exciting to see a film with such a firm grip on its audience's collective throat. |