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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Yossi
    The film is at its finest as a catalogue of Yossi's unspoken ache, less so when it begins to flirt with the clichés of the love story.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    After Love
    The film too often puts too much trust in dialogue, as Marie and Boris's predicament is sometimes perfectly conveyed by the actors' facial expressions and body language.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    The Midwife
    If not for its performances, the film would belong in the category of Hallmark Channel tearjerkers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 12 Diego Semerene
    King Kelly
    The film decides very early on, as part of its premise, to reduce Louisa Krause's King Kelly to a one-dimensional narcissist.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Private Desert
    Aly Muritiba’s film is always telling the viewer that death-ness and trans-ness bear the intimacy of Siamese sisters.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Guidance
    The unapologetic lack of political correctness never goes beyond a one-dimensional and tentative provocation.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Distant Constellation
    The film exposes the idea of places as metaphors, mirrors, and symptoms for the people who inhabit them.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Summer of 85
    François Ozon’s paean to nostalgia wraps tragedy and obsession in a whimsical bow.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    White Girl
    It's an entertaining and unapologetic tale of female risk-taking, filled with clever camerawork, but the characters remain shallow.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Camille Claudel 1915
    Juliette Binoche's face, as we know, can tell a million stories in a simple and brief rearrangement of her facial muscles.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Dzi Croquettes
    What's easy to appreciate in the documentary, however, is the way it reassembles the Dzi Croquettes' trajectory without polishing off its jagged edges. It's through their brilliance and their flaws that they become muses.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
    It ever so subtly zeros in on the extreme particularities of a remote place to find something universal, or at the very least easily comprehensible about despair.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    A World Not Ours
    Mahdi Fleifel's usage of a domestic archive of home-video images inherited from his father lends the doc a simultaneous sense of historical gravitas and intimacy.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Take Me to the River
    It's difficult to believe in Ryder's gullibility, if not willingness to be caught in his uncle's strange web of provocations.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Paradise: Love
    It often seems more intent on spelling out its awareness of the politics involved than in lingering on the aching human engaged in the libidinal transactions.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Tharlo
    In the logic of the film, for the camera to move at all would feel like a betrayal of its contemplative hunger.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Bonsái
    Cristián Jiménez's film knows how entangled the will to know is with the will to make love.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Teenage
    It botches itself out of its own epic ambitions, an aesthetic slickness that seems to contradict, if not betray, its subject matter, and a maddeningly subdued critical spirit.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Jean Gentil
    Filmmakers Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas have crafted a beautiful tale of alienation, solitude, and existential anxiety.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Summer of Sangaile
    Writer-director Alanté Kavaité's film is a string of softly weaved pictorial metaphors steeped in reverie.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Kids of Today
    While this uncataloguable and entrancing film gazes back in nostalgia to a time of performance-art priapism when everyone seems to have known Warhol, it also leaves room for a particularly hopeful diagnosis of the present.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Farewell to Hollywood
    It suggests that a disease isn't a product of one single person's body, but the eruption of an entire family history of unarticulated desire.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Bleak Street
    Bleakness, Arturo Ripstein's film implies, demands different kinds of labor from a man than from a woman.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Simon & the Oaks
    The film is at its best when it lingers on intimacy and the characters' incompetency to manage it.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Two Lives
    The film's educational impetus is to announce to the world that even picture-perfect Norwegians continue to pay a heavy price for the horrors of WWII.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    The Salt of Tears
    Philippe Garrel illustrates the absurdity behind the myth of the complementary couple with the same cynicism that permeates his previous work but none of the humor or wit.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Feb 23, 2020
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    Xenia
    It leaves room for a few flights of fancy where the lack of verisimilitude feels less like screenplay filler and more like unabashed poetic license.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    Strike a Pose
    The filmmakers and performers show great maturity in refusing to settle scores or spill secrets.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    All the Light in the Sky
    In Joe Swanberg's disaffected little film, the drama is never explicit, or even fully conscious.
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