Ali Benzekri
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On average, this critic grades 2.8 points higher than other critics.
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Ali Benzekri's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 69 | |
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| Highest review score: | La Gradiva | |
| Lowest review score: | Parallel Tales | |
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- Ali Benzekri
The result is a film that contains nearly everything adolescence can hold: desire, embarrassment, friendship, cruelty, harassment, loneliness, tenderness, and fleeting moments of connection. Yet what lingers is neither nostalgia nor melancholy. It is the feeling of having spent time with people rather than characters. By the end of La Gradiva, Atlan has achieved something deceptively difficult. She has made observation feel like drama.- AwardsWatch
- Posted Jun 5, 2026
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- Ali Benzekri
The film is undeniably demanding: slow, resistant, and often withholding. It rarely offers explanation or narrative relief, leaving connections implied but never stated. But this difficulty is structural. It is built around dynamics rather than events, around how people adjust to one another in real time and negotiate power through proximity alone.- AwardsWatch
- Posted Jun 5, 2026
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