Concepción de León

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The New York Times
For 36 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 22% higher than the average critic
  • 16% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Concepción de León's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Colette and Justin
Lowest review score: 30 Art of Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 36
  3. Negative: 2 out of 36
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    • 100 Concepción de León
    Colette and Justin
    The result is a film both intimate and political; informative and profound. It highlights the deep and far-reaching wounds of colonization and offers a balm for its scars.
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    • 80 Concepción de León
    Fire Through Dry Grass
    The combination of firsthand footage with poetry makes for an intimate and raw film that gives a real sense of the confinement faced by the residents, some of whom compared the experience to previous jail stints.
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    • 80 Concepción de León
    Split at the Root
    Split at the Root is a powerful lens into the emotional plight of the thousands of immigrants who cross the border into the United States, the danger they are fleeing and the people trying to help them.
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    • 70 Concepción de León
    Love in the Time of Fentanyl
    Though at times the film’s narrative momentum and focus on its subjects is lacking, it shows that drug users, to whom the drug crisis is more than an abstract idea, are perhaps the most capable of creating solutions to the overdose epidemic.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 70 Concepción de León
    Easter Sunday
    Easter Sunday is at its strongest when it stays close to the Valencia family, which is made for TV.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Concepción de León
    The Deer King
    The film is tenderly wrought and brilliantly animated, with transitions that emphasize the communion between the land and the human body.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Concepción de León
    Beba
    Beba is profound. The filmmaker delves into all of who she is, including darker or more destructive aspects of her identity, pushing viewers to see Huntt’s complexity — and perhaps their own.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Concepción de León
    Father of the Bride
    Father of the Bride shows the sort of rich cultural representation that can happen when people from the cultures being represented are enlisted to tell their own stories.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Concepción de León
    Hold Your Fire
    The film’s intention may have been to highlight the negotiator’s achievement, but it appears that it was public pressure, as much as his influence, that prevented more bloodshed.
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    • 70 Concepción de León
    Women of the White Buffalo
    Though the film lacks a clear narrative arc, put together, these stories draw a line between the historical genocide and displacement suffered by Indigenous people and the present destitution on reservations.
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    • 70 Concepción de León
    Rock Bottom Riser
    The film is sometimes hard to follow, because the connection between the images and the voice-overs is not always clear. But taken as a whole, Rock Bottom Riser leaves viewers with a strong sense of how native Hawaiians view themselves and their future, and encourages inquiry into how their land might be preserved.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Concepción de León
    Family Squares
    Filmed during quarantine in 2020, Family Squares uses the communication tools of the pandemic era to deliver a film with the intimacy of a home movie, while still exploring the chaos and limitations of technology.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Concepción de León
    President
    Nielsson’s access to Chamisa allows for an intimate look at the Catch-22 of establishing a democracy amid state-sanctioned violence and corruption, and the grit of those fighting for it.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Concepción de León
    Lakota Nation vs. United States
    This stunning film, directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, interleaves interviews of Lakota activists and elders with striking images of the Black Hills and its wildlife, historical documents and news reports, clips from old movies and other archival footage to extraordinary effect, demonstrating not only the physical and cultural violence inflicted on the Lakota but also their deep connection to the Black Hills, the area where Mount Rushmore was erected.

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