Spoor

2017

2h 8m

Crime

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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74%

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42 Reviews

49%

Audience Score

100+ Ratings

A retired woman gets mixed up in a mystery when avid hunters in her mountain village begin turning up dead, and there are deer tracks next to their bodies.

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Critics Consensus

Spoor stylishly taps into a deep well of anger to deliver an unusual yet largely effective revenge thriller with environmental and feminist overtones.

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Ty Burr

Boston Globe

[I]t's well worth a look.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 28, 2021

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Tomris Laffly

RogerEbert.com

Holland's cinematic mastery ... charges every frame of her misty, mud-ridden and chilly-to-the-touch film with the grandeur and ominous aliveness of the nature that surrounds Duszejko's world.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 23, 2021

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Kristy Puchko

Pajiba

Spoor is a crime-thriller that sparks with violence and toxic masculinity, yet has a radiant heart thumping at its core.

Jan 22, 2021

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

Emphasizing atmosphere over plot, this muddled genre hybrid never musters the consistent suspense to match its haunting imagery.

Jan 7, 2022

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Alex Saveliev

Film Threat

Holland's films contain worlds within worlds, and, like the rest of them, Spoor is a marvel to unravel.

Rated: 8/10

Feb 11, 2021

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Tom Meek

Cambridge Day

The cinematography by Jolanta Dylewska and Rafal Paradowski captures the snowy woodlands in stark, aesthetically composed and contrasted frames.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 2, 2021

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bonnie w

I really liked this movie. The protagonist, Agnieszka Mandat-Grabka, was wonderful. She really made the audience feel her anguish, anger and then acceptance similar to the stages of grief. Her love and respect for animals in contrast to the attitude of the ruthless hunters and others was so nicely woven into this story.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

A pretty good murder mystery based in an isolated Polish village close to the Czech border. [

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

Undeniably different with its own typical style and tone, the movie proves to be as visually striking as it can be too much of a slow burn. Navigating between a strange gory thriller and the portrait of an edge of the world community, the film is more a social drama than anything else but does it in its own matter and yet proves to be the work of an author, so kuddos for that...but still can feel hard to sit through.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

"Spoor" kept me engaged from start to finish. Pro tip: watch the movie in its original language with subtitles. The cast - especially Agnieszka Mandat - are phenomenal when heard with their own voices.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Audience Member

A strange film with some odd characters that keeps you waiting for a resolution which it never quite delivers.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

I love a good murder mystery film, I only wish that Spoor was a good murder mystery film. It is a clumsily-constructed narrative that basically requires all the police to be morons, as they voluntarily ignore what should be obvious. It focuses on an eccentric old woman who is an avid nature lover that obsesses over the well-being of all animals. Living where she does in Poland, she is surrounded by a society of people who greatly value hunting, and that puts her at odds with almost everyone. She also forms some loose friendships with the outsiders in town, but this is primarily the story of her journey, and how she keeps discovering the bodies of dead hunters. I will say no more about the string of murders because there is a chance you might be surprised at what is happening, but it seemed fairly obvious to me. Now it’s not impossible to enjoy a mystery when I figure it out early, if the journey is still worthwhile. Spoor has a laborious pace that is off-putting. I was struggling with the tedious pace, and how long we would go without progressing the plot. It was almost like the murders weren’t being treated as something to worry about at all. There was never a sense of urgency, and the scenes with police never felt like they were investigating much more than a purse snatching. The sub-plots about the hooker with a heart of gold, and the nerdy programmer were given as much weight by the film-makers. It is such an odd film that did little for me. There’s also one moment at the end that I found laughably stupid, and I could not comprehend why they thought it made sense. There are elements of Spoor that are worth watching. It helped that I had constant hope I would be wrong about whodunnit, but I certainly can’t see myself recommending it to anyone else.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/20/20

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Synopsis

A retired woman gets mixed up in a mystery when avid hunters in her mountain village begin turning up dead, and there are deer tracks next to their bodies.

Director: Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik
Screenwriter: Olga Tokarczuk, Agnieszka Holland
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Polish
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 22, 2021
Runtime: 2h 8m

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