Diego Semerene

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For 299 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 37% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Diego Semerene's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Tomboy
Lowest review score: 0 The Roads Not Taken
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 156 out of 299
  2. Mixed: 43 out of 299
  3. Negative: 100 out of 299
299 movie reviews
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Collective
    The film reminds us that without investigative reporting there’s no democracy, and that traditional expectations around impartiality and objectivity may be untenable in the face of horror.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Diego Semerene
    Our Body
    Our Body offers, in its unwavering commitment to staring at the fragility of life in the eye, a solace devoid of romanticism or spiritual self-delusion.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Days
    Reciprocity might be impossible in a world rigged against queerness, Tsai seems to say, which doesn’t mean that certain things can't still be shared.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Drive My Car
    At its most accomplished, the film unfolds with a voluptuous slowness and a sense that narrative endpoints are irrelevant.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Silence of Others
    Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s documentary is monumental for its clamorous sounding of an alarm.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Paris Calligrammes
    While Ulrike Ottinger accesses the most consequential of decades through nostalgia, she does so with humility.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Diego Semerene
    Elle
    This is a film that isn’t afraid to inhabit the maddening ambivalence of pleasure, recognizing that desire simply doesn’t recognize good manners.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Great Freedom
    In Great Freedom, the question of love is refreshingly never too far from bodily intimacy, irrespective of what kind of love that is.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Diego Semerene
    Mr. Bachmann and His Class
    The documentary exists within the very restricted pantheon of films that successfully reap the cinematic potential of pedagogy.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    About Dry Grasses
    Above all, the film captures how easy it is to deposit too much hope on the few who represent dissent, or freedom, when one is trapped.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Rose
    Freudians will have a field day with Markus Schleinzer’s 17th-century-set folk tale.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Welcome to Chechnya
    David France’s most remarkable accomplishment emerges from an aesthetic commitment of a very particular kind.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    God's Own Country
    Writer-director Francis Lee captures not only what masculinity does and how it comes undone, but the complex apparatus that keeps it into place: the family’s surveillance, the silence, the shame.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Sunless Shadows
    Redolent of Claude Lanzmann’s approach, Mehrdad Oskouei strips his images to their barest bones as his subjects openly speak about their traumas, as if trying to avoid aestheticizing their pain.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Eternal Memory
    Maite Alberdi’s film slowly reveals the personal loss of the ability to remember as inextricably linked to the loss of national memory.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Lure
    Agnieszka Smoczynska's film is most poignant when it simply stares at its own strangeness.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    McQueen
    As Ian Bonhôte's documentary reveals, Alexander McQueen's suicide was perhaps the all-too-predictable ending to a history of violence.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    The Blue Caftan
    The film is best experienced by simply wallowing in the lushness of its fabrics, sartorial and symbolic alike, refusing the temptation to unspool its poetic parallels.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Diego Semerene
    Miss Kiet's Children
    Childhood in Peter Lataster and Petra Lataster-Czisch's documentary is the terrain of contradiction and ambiguity.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus
    The documentary is committed not to some pseudo-factual documentary tradition, but to a more engaging realist poesis.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Ixcanul
    The film's structure, however stifling, is filled with gorgeous imagery and nuanced symbolism.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Being 17
    André Téchiné does justice to the closeness between repulsion and desire, difference and sameness, heterosexuality and homosexuality.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    There Is No Evil
    The film grapples with the various shapes that guilt and honor (or lack thereof) might take in a context of state-sanctioned death.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Acasă, My Home
    The film is at its most moving when it lingers on the face of children who are impotent to return to the world they used to call home.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Diego Semerene
    Joyland
    Joyland is full of extraordinary situations that prevent it from being defined by its topicality or tantamount to a badge of honor.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    In a Whisper
    Leyla Bouzid’s ability to capture the complexities and contradictions of familial affection is what makes In a Whisper so impressive.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Diego Semerene
    Stranger by the Lake
    Alain Guiraudie's film portrays cruising as a danger-seeking and astoundingly repetitive affair, intimately linked to death itself.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Elena
    This is a film about the invisible things passed down from generation to generation, that nasty inheritance that cages us into patterns and puzzles we try to solve in someone else's name.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Close
    The film reminds us that any coming of age is a risky business where finitude and mourning are the only guarantees.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    Closet Monster
    It's when Stephen Dunn dares to inhabit the how and not the what of queerness that Closet Monster feels authentic and deliciously strange.
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