Anthology films are always a tricky business, almost impossible to get perfect because there’s no way for any given segment not to feel disappointing relative to a better one. But writer/director Damián Szifrón does a pretty decent job in this sextet of shorts—nominated for a Foreign Language Film Oscar—with a darkly comic sensibility, most of them revolving around vengeance and/or rough justice with a few moral twists and turns. That focus places the tone somewhere between The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt, kicking off with the terrific pre-credits prologue, and including an effectively brutal segment about a case of road rage gone over-the-top. It’s a shame that Szifrón doesn’t have the same degree of control over the pacing of other segments, including one featuring Ricardo Darín as an engineer losing his patience with bureaucracy that builds to a too-obvious payoff, and the over-long finale set at a wedding reception gone haywire. There are plenty of satisfying moments throughout, enough that perhaps it’s better to think about how this would play as a weekly series: Even the weaker ones are good enough that you’d probably keep watching. By Scott Renshaw