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
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    A Man's Story
    A Man's Story does a major disservice to an artiste of fashion with a pretty amazing and prolific oeuvre by reducing him to a Bravo-like personality - a personality whose pettiness Boateng's work, though perhaps not his ego, clearly exceeds.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    Sassy Pants
    Sassy Pants has a slightly ludic atmosphere akin to another tale of teen alienation, Dear Lemon Lima, but it unfolds like a fable in which only Bethany doesn't feel like a canned caricature.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    My Worst Nightmare
    The hilarity of the film creeps up slowly and from every angle, not through the facile immediacy of short-lived laughter.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    The Iran Job
    Though there's something refreshing, and disturbingly familiar, about Kevin Sheppard's spontaneity, he's certainly not the most interesting thing about the film.
    • 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.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    Bel Borba Aqui
    There's no pointing toward something other than the work itself, no poetic digression, no suggestion of a conceptual dimensionality to the work being produced.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    BearCity 2: The Proposal
    Doug Langway's film is often too cheesy to, well, bear.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
    The film captures Vreeland's perhaps unwitting philosophical integrity just as much as it drowns us in the exuberance of her work.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 12 Diego Semerene
    The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
    The film has, at its source, a pool of affectations that so often constitute, or plague, American indie films--and, perhaps, American culture more generally.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    The Inbetweeners Movie
    Oh, the hilarious awkwardness of placing privileged white kids in a place where they don't belong.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    Craigslist Joe
    As hard as he tries, we never truly believe there's a lot at stake for Garner, who seems to cruise through America like a gringo taking a favela tour in Rio.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    30 Beats
    While it lends itself to some interesting insight on the politics of non-exclusive, fuck-buddy dynamics, its characters are ultimately too one-dimensional and their dialogue too theatrical to sustain an involving cinematic experience.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Woman in the Septic Tank
    A lighthearted critique on the fetishized notion of the "non-actor," the ethics (or lack thereof) of the "docudrama," and the packaging of national despair for exportation.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    The Samaritan
    The Samaritan treads a fine line between film-noir moodiness and crime-thriller triteness, mostly settling for the latter.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 88 Diego Semerene
    Bonsái
    Cristián Jiménez's film knows how entangled the will to know is with the will to make love.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    The Perfect Family
    Having the far from goody-goody Kathleen Turner play a holier-than-thou mother bent on winning a devout church title is an inherently hilarious premise.
    • 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.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Diego Semerene
    Going Down in LA-LA Land
    Director Casper Andreas does a good job conserving a simultaneous sense of disgust and attraction for the way big-city dreams end up stripping off wannabes from everything but their bodies.
    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 12 Diego Semerene
    Life Happens
    L!fe Happens wants us to believe its message is one of female independence and empowerment.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Artificial Paradises
    The juxtaposition between the gorgeous natural beauty of a remote beach with the stubborn human need to escape somewhere, no matter what cost, is what really enthralls in the film.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    We the Party
    While We the Party can be insensitive, or blind, to the misogyny and homophobia of the general culture (the token gay teen is a finger-snapping, head-bobbing fashionista), it takes the issues of race and class quite seriously.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    Come on Eileen
    Rarely leaves the realm of the obvious and the literal.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Wise Kids
    Hovering over the narrative is the fear of the domino effect that change can enact, the dread that one person's "queerness" may perhaps expose everyone else's.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 0 Diego Semerene
    Casa de mi Padre
    You know a film isn't going to be considered high art when the guy to your left at the press screening is a reporter from Extra and the guy to your right lets out a loud "That's awesome, man" after each scene.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Diego Semerene
    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye tries so hard to keep up with the quirkiness and theatricality of its subjects that it ends up canceling them out.
    • 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.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 0 Diego Semerene
    A Warrior's Heart
    A Warrior's Heart is so inept at developing itself as a film that it hands in all of its devices to the soundtrack itself and becomes a music video.
    • Slant Magazine
      • Posted Feb 11, 2012
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Diego Semerene
    Private Romeo
    Private Romeo feels more like a side project from the producers of Glee than some kind of novel queering of Shakespeare's text.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 25 Diego Semerene
    After Fall, Winter
    Taking the pedestrian and decidedly unsexy American male to Paris so he can become a sexual human being attuned to life's small pleasures is a tired device that perhaps only Woody Allen could possibly resurrect from the stinky pile of cinematic clichés.
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