Eli Friedberg
Select another critic »For 38 reviews, this critic has graded:
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21% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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77% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Eli Friedberg's Scores
- Movies
- TV
| Average review score: | 63 | |
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| Highest review score: | Final Account | |
| Lowest review score: | My Neighbor Adolf | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 38
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Mixed: 13 out of 38
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Negative: 3 out of 38
38
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reviews
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- Eli Friedberg
It falls well short of providing any satisfying exploration of its weighty theme of persuasion versus violence in the face of oppression.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 2, 2026
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- Eli Friedberg
Blomkamp, one suspects, does not possess the same imagination for interior worlds he’s exhibited for external. Demonic largely proves this thesis correct.- The Film Stage
- Posted Aug 16, 2021
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- Eli Friedberg
It’s a familiar traced sketch of 20th century imagined dystopias, but Gen-Z trappings evocative of our own looming dystopia offer a slightly new shade of color. It just isn’t vivid enough.- The Film Stage
- Posted Apr 9, 2021
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- Eli Friedberg
The film’s intentionally amateurish visuals are deployed on audiences with the precision of a jackhammer, all in the interest of obscurantism.- The Film Stage
- Posted Jan 12, 2023
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- The Film Stage
- Posted Jun 12, 2020
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- Eli Friedberg
The film at once wrings this premise for whimsical absurdism and slow-burn suspense, on each side vulgarizing the memory of the Holocaust.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 5, 2026
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- Eli Friedberg
At times, Resurrection seems to outright taunt viewers for trying to make sense of it all.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 3, 2025
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- Eli Friedberg
The film has, figuratively and literally, somehow even less gravity than its source material and predecessor. The visual language is divorced from reality and referent to the games; even Looney Tunes action is grounded in the real world—the better to subvert it.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 31, 2026
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