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
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    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Invisible Life
    Only rarely does Karim Aïnouz allow for loopholes to refreshingly emerge from the film’s stylistic deadlock.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Diego Semerene
    Beginners
    One of the most distinct pleasures of Beginners is the way it puts together fragments of someone's life-presumably the filmmaker's, although little does it matter-with humility, and without vying for some complete whole.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Saudi Runaway
    Camera, character, and cameraperson are one throughout, and the effect is exquisitely suffocating.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Chinese Portrait
    The simplicity of bodies barely moving before a camera that brings their quotidian temporality into a halt is nothing short of a radical proposition in our digital era.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Chambermaid
    Lila Avilés’s film reserves the possibility of flirtations with disaster to turn into acts of emancipation.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    12 Days
    With a tender and respectful gaze, 12 DAYS (@distribfilmsus) sheds light on the relationship between the French state and the mentally ill.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    The King of Escape
    Cruising for Alain Guiraudie seems to be the way of nature, a drive that doesn't discriminate.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Dying
    The film’s diligent script and nuanced performances are such that the depressing material stops short of turning into a depressing experience.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    20,000 Species of Bees
    The film blooms in moments where, instead of literally addressing Coco's gender trouble, we’re simply allowed to inhabit it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    The Sleeping Beauty
    Judging from The Sleeping Beauty, and the previous "Bluebeard," the provocations stop with the choice of the material, as the tone and style of these films are jarringly well-behaved.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Honey
    Driven by a no-nonsense ethos, the film avoids sentimentality the same way its main character avoids sentiment.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Call Me Kuchu
    The film provides welcome context for the semi-hysteria that recently took over the U.S. media in regard to Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Other People's Children
    The film’s most authentic moments are those that leave its main character breathless, cutting her plans for making up for lost time short.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Clouds of Sils Maria
    The pleasure in watching the film becomes a linguistic one as Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart masterfully sharpen their words and hurl them at each other like projectiles out of a blowpipe.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Ice Tower
    The Ice Tower is, ultimately, an aesthetic and nostalgic exercise.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Cow
    Throughout Andrea Arnold’s film, a kind of affective connection is formed between animal and the cinematic apparatus.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Papirosen
    Gastón Solnicki's mapping out of his family's narrative from within never feels exploitative or self-absorbed.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    The Wife
    Glenn Close's perennial look of astonishment and resilience commands the action to the point of turning every other screen element into a gratuitous prop.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    Downeast
    An exposé of how the financial structures that make businesses possible in America seem to conspire against genuine good will and non-self-serving ambition.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    November
    Rainer Sarnet is as invested in telling a convoluted story that feels rooted in millennia-old folklore as he is in unabashedly experimenting with form and style for the sake of visual pleasure alone.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    Kokomo City
    The film’s most significant accomplishment is the mood it crafts with its cool black-and-white images, fast-paced editing, unorthodox camera angles, handheld camera, and overall jazzy atmosphere.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
    The extreme largesse of Anselm Kiefer's project, his radical certainties and devotion, all call for a more intrusive probing.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Kontinental '25
    Radu Jude’s cinema isn’t exactly absurdist, though it exposes the absurdities of a present reeling from the unresolved injustices of yore.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Innocents
    Anne Fontaine's film is an allegory for women's condition more generally, in times of war or peace.
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