Ali Benzekri

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For 4 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ali Benzekri's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 La Gradiva
Lowest review score: 33 Parallel Tales
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Ali Benzekri
    The Dreamed Adventure
    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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 33 Ali Benzekri
    Parallel Tales
    Parallel Tales ultimately feels like a film that understands exactly how stories are built, but no longer believes in why they are told. Its ideas about perception and fabrication are precise, even elegant at times, yet they never harden into lived experience. What remains is a cinema of construction without consequence, where Farhadi’s usual moral pressure has been replaced by a fascination with form that rarely touches ground.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Ali Benzekri
    La Gradiva
    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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 58 Ali Benzekri
    Full Phil
    At only 77 minutes, Full Phil disappears before its looseness becomes exhausting. By the end, the movie starts resembling Phil himself: swollen, awkward, overloaded with nervous energy, and barely functioning logic. It never fully settles into a coherent shape, but it remains strangely difficult to look away from.

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