Phil de Semlyen

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Empire, Time Out, Time Out London
For 492 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Phil de Semlyen's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 The Lost Daughter
Lowest review score: 20 Stuber
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 285 out of 492
  2. Mixed: 202 out of 492
  3. Negative: 5 out of 492
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Phil de Semlyen
    Robot Dreams
    Berger doesn’t make concessions for the easily teary: Robot Dreams is a film as much about separation as togetherness. But while the final reel is a low-key heartbreaker, the bubble never pops on the loveliness of what came before.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Phil de Semlyen
    Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
    Amirpour’s career to date offers a triptych of stories of women navigating men’s worlds, and needing all their nous and resources to survive in them – and this is her most straight-up enjoyable survivor tale yet. It’s a feminist parable that may not linger as long as in the mind as her more provocative debut, but it’s irresistible fun in the moment.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Phil de Semlyen
    Holy Spider
    Abbasi offered a brilliantly leftfield perspective on immigration and otherness with his 2018 debut Border, and his follow-up takes no prisoners in his critique of Iranian society’s built-in misogyny and fake piety.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Phil de Semlyen
    Dogman
    Newcomer Fonte is terrific in the lead role, communicating Marcello’s meek protests with a twitchy physicality that grows slowly into a sketchy defiance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Phil de Semlyen
    Dune: Part One
    [Villeneuve] has nailed it where, in different ways David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowksy and Ridley Scott all floundered. His Dune is sprawling, spectacular and politically resonant in its critique of colonialism and exploitation.
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