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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    • 61 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Dreams
    The film exposes the incontestable American art of getting more with blunt obviousness.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 12 Diego Semerene
    The Sense of an Ending
    Ritesh Batra's film is a tale of white nostalgia that should have found its footing on dramatic grounds.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Paradise: Faith
    A shallow film that leaves us knowing exactly what we're seeing, and able to predict what the characters will say to each other in the mostly uninspired and overtly familiar dialogue.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    El Angel
    El Angel‘s greatest accomplishment is in the way it charges the relationships between characters with so much eroticism but never grants us the right to watch desire — other than desire for violence — actually unfold.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Any Day Now
    Its most redeeming quality is that it isn't so quick to neuter its queer characters into a package-friendly "gay couple" aesthetic a la Modern Family.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Sibyl
    Justine Triet is less committed to some make-believe realism than she is to the tricks that memory and language can play on us.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    Into the Forest
    Essentially a post-apocalyptic telenovela, it sanitizes the concept of sisterhood, and even womanhood.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Advantageous
    The dialogue is so disaffected it's as if humans were replicants even before going through the aforementioned twin-making procedure.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Abigail Harm
    Lee Isaac Chung's film exudes a wonderful sense of originality, a daring and organic playfulness rarely found in American indie cinema.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Dating Amber
    Dating Amber rather seamlessly strips itself of its hyperbolic affectations to reveal a heartbreaking story of emancipation through friendship.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    My Darling Supermarket
    If the world outside the Supermercado Veran is rife with poverty and crime, we wouldn’t know it from inside this little cocoon.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Valley of Love
    The film enables us to feel the emotional weight of a posthumous letter precisely because we can only imagine its contents.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    The Magician
    The Magician might have worked better if it could have sustained for its first several sequences a sense of genre confusion.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Look
    Rampling is very much aware of the camera's every intention and possibility. Perhaps too aware, like the kind of over-educated narcissist for whom real spontaneity is too costly a risk.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    The Model
    The film unapologetically warns us at every turn that fashion is nothing but a business, fueled by naiveté and rape.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Love & Air Sex
    Whatever predictable plot the film tries to unfold never lives up to the excitement of its conceptual gimmick.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    High & Low: John Galliano
    The film shamelessly announces from the very start that it’s an attempt at atonement for disgraced designer John Galliano.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Uncle Frank
    When the distance between uncle and niece shortens, Uncle Frank ceases to be a tender portrait of outsider kinship and transforms into a histrionic road movie with screwball intentions.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Jobriath A.D.
    The film never explores the depths and nuances that could actually place Jobriath in conversation with figures who came after him, however reductively.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Moving Creatures
    Caetano Gotardo's triptych of short tales features a sense of experimentation and poetic license mostly seen in European cinema.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    Gemma Bovery
    The film dabbles in the French romantic-comedy tradition and simultaneously spoofs it, committing to neither.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football
    In the documentary, the game is a make-believe war of pent-up frustrations linking race, nation, and manhood, one which teenage boys named Mohamed can actually win.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Simple Passion
    The film makes no attempt to embody the themes that form the core of Annie Ernaux’s story in its aesthetics.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Cirkus Columbia
    Its lightheartedness and overtly traditional narrative structure become a smart strategy for crafting what is ultimately a very nuanced political critique of capital.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    1,000 Times Good Night
    It's difficult to swallow the premise of yet another tale of a heroic white Westerner with good intentions trying to give hope to Middle-Eastern misery.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    The Intervention
    Clea DuVall crafts an entire film out of aborted attempts at a revelation that feel completely anodyne.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Salvation Army
    It's a quiet thud of a film, which embraces, with grace and precision, the nastiness of growing up with desire stuck in one's throat like a muffled scream.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 12 Diego Semerene
    I Am Michael
    Justin Kelly's film is more interested in rushing through the narrative's events than contemplating their environment.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Dream Boat
    If the global reunion that the cruise ship presents here is such a panacea, why is there so much moping?
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Stuffed
    Erin Derham’s unadventurous aesthetic inoculates her from taxidermy’s subversive spirit.
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