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 8.9 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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    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Blackbird
    The film is, like its main character, too naïve to understand or, at least, to deploy the reparative powers of camp.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    A Wolf at the Door
    It finds its strength in painting a portrait of Brazilian heterosexual gender relations as an always-volatile symbiosis between feminine hysteria and ruthless machismo.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Appropriate Behavior
    Desiree Akhavan's tale of queer post-breakup funk shows more nuance, and racial dimension, than its cinematic cousins.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    Free the Nipple
    This is kind of didactic topical movie that distributes its rhetoric evenly between characters with clear distinction as to who's playing devil's advocate to the other one's points.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Once Upon a Time Verônica
    The film is simply too conscious of its form and its global-market ambitions to ever feel honestly interested in the themes it purports to cherish.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Circle
    The film refuses to tease us with suspense, overwhelm us with sentimentality, or defy us with nuance.
    • 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.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Days and Nights
    The drama over dinner comes in small analgesic portions, and the secrets feel canned and the dialogue is too pretty to be believable.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Wetlands
    For its general ludic obsession with all things generally thought of as disgusting, the German film Wetlands is stuck in the anal stage.
    • 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.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    I Am Happiness on Earth
    If the film defies conventional form, it does so without the gravitas that conceptual cohesion brings, quickly rendering its experimentation into gratuitous aesthetic masturbation.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Fifi Howls from Happiness
    Mitra Farahani rescues the doc from becoming a talking-head fest by embracing her creative self as a character and exposing the travails of her own authorship process.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 0 Diego Semerene
    The Moment
    The film is a hybrid of a Lifetime movie focused on a "strong woman," a run-of-the-mill murder mystery, and a yogurt commercial from hell.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 1 Metascore
    • 0 Diego Semerene
    10 Rules for Sleeping Around
    For a film so bent on naturalizing the presumably hilarious incongruity of "the sexes," it sure features lots and lots of that site of horror: a naked male body. And for comedic purposes, of course.
    • 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Guilty of Romance
    Though it begins with the aesthetic and conceptual rigor of Blade Runner, it quickly veers toward the gratuitous outlandishness of a Bruce La Bruce film.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Honey
    Driven by a no-nonsense ethos, the film avoids sentimentality the same way its main character avoids sentiment.
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Papirosen
    Gastón Solnicki's mapping out of his family's narrative from within never feels exploitative or self-absorbed.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Free Ride
    Shana Betz's too-insistent refusal to commit to the melodramatic or to the suspenseful only makes the film seem like empty dramatization.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Liv & Ingmar
    The documentary not only humanizes Ingmar Bergman as the absent lover-cum-father of everyday life, but works as a priceless oral history of cinema.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Twice Born
    Sergio Castellitto's film quickly turns out to be more interested in reveling in the secrets of its storyline than in its sentiments.
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