JJ is a soldier who's been tasked with preventing an imminent terrorist threat to the Vatican. While he's in Rome, though, he is also eager on finding his anarchist brother, a political prisoner who may or may not already be dead. In addition there's an obvious race against time and plenty of enemies.... (Full plot summary below)
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JJ is a soldier who's been tasked with preventing an imminent terrorist threat to the Vatican. While he's in Rome, though, he is also eager on finding his anarchist brother, a political prisoner who may or may not already be dead. In addition there's an obvious race against time and plenty of enemies.
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| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyFerrara’s filmmaking always has a blunt elemental force and conviction. It doesn’t quite transcend the commonplace aspect of what he’s trying to “say.” And yet transcending isn’t the point—doing is. This is not just guerrilla filmmaking, it’s a kind of action painting. A literal journey to the end of the night. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThis is a movie at which some will shrug and some will love. It’s a spiritually probing, deeply personal, stubbornly idiosyncratic work of art. It’s an Abel Ferrara film. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangThe intellectual take on the pandemic here is oblique. Still, the mood feels extraordinarily direct, like speaking on a telephone to a version of yourself from maybe half a year ago in lockdown number two or three, before there were vaccines and hope, when the winter nights were long and dawn seemed very far away. |
| The Film StageEthan VestbyAt barely feature-length it’s somewhat a wisp of a film, but to good ends, as if the crazed artist at its helm isn’t even totally stopping to think, and like one of his greatest works, New Rose Hotel, channeling the fury of his early art into a different form of aggression. |
| The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyWhat Zeros And Ones conveys, in its shoestring terms, is the actual mood of a world of uncertainties. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichZeros and Ones isn’t much of an entertaining sit — watching it feels like dusting off a cryptic artifact from a bygone civilization, its pleasures more archaeological than anything else — but every frame of this weird soup is suffused with the restless creative spirit of someone who’s been waiting for a new world order, and recognizes that we only get so many chances to make it happen. |
| TheWrapCarlos AguilarIndecipherable to a fault but in the end surprisingly hopeful, Zeros and Ones feels like diving into a murky river to search for a missing object, fully aware one might never find it but still willing to get wet in its slush for the sake of trying. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisUtterly baffling, yet never less than intriguing, Zeros and Ones lingers in the mind. Even after you think you’ve brushed it off, its chilly tendrils continue to cling. |
| Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganBolstered by a sharply competent central performance as well as darkly intoxicating shots of an ancient city, Zeros and Ones is an act of artistic abstraction that is mostly rewarding in its ambiguity. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawThis film may stretch your patience to the limit and beyond. It’s minor work – but there is always something there, some restless wounded intelligence, a pugnacious worrying-away at something. |
