"Though it sometimes spins its wheels, Kontinental 25’s parade of indifference towards suffering, combined with Jude’s eye for the absurdity of modern commercialized life (pissing in a Bitcoin ATM, kicking a robot dog, etc.), captures the stagnant despair of modern western life more accurately than most contemporary films. "

"Though the men who’ve “made history” may reign death upon all the earth, Diaz proposes that the only universal truth is that all, master and slave, will be returned unto that earth from which they came, dwarfed by the forces of nature that they seek to conquer."