The Delinquents

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The Delinquents

2023

3h 0m

Comedy

Drama

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72 Reviews

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Buenos Aires bank employee Morán dreams up a scheme to liberate himself from corporate monotony: he'll steal enough money to support a modest retirement, then confess and serve prison time while his co-worker holds on to the cash. Soon under pressure by a company investigator, accomplice Román heads to a remote rural idyll to hide the funds. There, he encounters a mysterious woman who will transform his life forever.

Critics Consensus

Breaking through the genre wall, The Delinquents is an astute existential heist movie that will reward patient viewers with a humorous fable about freedom.

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Jonathan Romney

Financial Times

03/21/2024

5/5

Utterly individual, this is one bank robbery film that writes its own cheques.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

11/29/2023

I really like the concept of the film, but whack 30 minutes out of this thing, man. C'mon!

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Peter Rainer

FilmWeek (LAist)

11/29/2023

I wish it hadn't been so long and attenuated towards the end, but it's definitely still worth seeing.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

01/08/2025

The Delinquents takes the liberal view that most people have more in common than not and mixes it with the more conservative view that we all control our own fate and that it’s our choices that separate us.

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Daniel Allen

Loud and Clear Reviews

07/25/2024

3.5/5

Moreno first presents a heist as mundane as his characters’ lives before complexifying things. This is partly a film of hitches, the pressures and complications of staying in prison or keeping up appearances. Yet it is also ever-shifting.

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Michael Wood

London Review of Books

05/02/2024

Curiously absorbing and bewildering.

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Runa R

@runa.r 05/23/2025

It is impossible not to burst out laughing when the character says, "Three and a half in prison, or twenty-five in the bank." The story is excellent.

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Bernardo D

@RT23233223 03/01/2025

It does work as a tale of life itself but it doesn’t live up to its title.

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gabriel l

@RT27057430 12/29/2024

Really like the movie and the music, specially the Pappos Blues songs and the Iconic LP from the 70s

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Dani G

@RT81139271 09/19/2024

It takes its time... No hurries to tell the story. Beautiful cinematography

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yves b

@RT32935192 03/31/2024

An exceptionally good film, an absolute stand-out in the sea of mediocrity that the movie biz sees fit to unleash upon us. Since the beginning of the year I have seen on the big screen more than 90 films. I felt none but but three or four were worth my time (Bonello's The Beast, Ilker's Takar's The Teachers' Lounge, Ana Vaz's NIghtttime in America, and of course this one. I can't imagine seeing a better film this year. Although one can dream, can't one? The brief Robert Bresson homage in the middle of the picture a delightful surprise, sort of a cherry-on-top.

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03/28/2024

Very boring. It tried so hard to be interesting and arty, but failed horribly at both. Nails-on-a-chalkboard kind of movie

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Synopsis

Buenos Aires bank employee Morán dreams up a scheme to liberate himself from corporate monotony: he'll steal enough money to support a modest retirement, then confess and serve prison time while his co-worker holds on to the cash. Soon under pressure by a company investigator, accomplice Román heads to a remote rural idyll to hide the funds. There, he encounters a mysterious woman who will transform his life forever.

Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Producer: Ezequiel Borovinsky
Screenwriter: Rodrigo Moreno
Distributor: MUBI
Production Co: Punta Colorada de Cinema, Jaque Content, Rizoma Films, Wanka Cine, Les Films Fauves, Jirafa films
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 18, 2023, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $42.3K
Runtime: 3h 0m