Simi Horwitz

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For 17 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 23% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 72% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Simi Horwitz's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 95 Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Lowest review score: 30 Spiral
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Simi Horwitz
    Shoah: Four Sisters
    Their most potent commentary is often their silence, their wordless responses to those questions that are unanswerable. Their restraint and dignity are an emotional sucker punch.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Simi Horwitz
    Weightless
    Weightless is a bleak slice-of-life movie that’s tightly focused and stylistically cohesive. The narrative is not without interest and the film’s atmospheric mood is effective. But ultimately its slow pacing (unremittingly so) grows tedious and the ending is a non-ending.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 75 Simi Horwitz
    A Bread Factory Part One: For the Sake of Gold
    Part One, subtitled For the Sake of Gold, is original and intriguing.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 95 Simi Horwitz
    Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    McCarthy has found the right creative partner in Heller, who treads unchartered territory with a character like Israel: unfashionable, unfamiliar and unappealing to most viewers.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Simi Horwitz
    The Kindergarten Teacher
    The Kindergarten Teacher is a flawed movie, but it presents an onscreen character original enough to be worth knowing.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 65 Simi Horwitz
    Beautiful Boy
    The performances in Beautiful Boy are superb, and overall this intense father-son drama, helmed by Belgian directorFelix Van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown), has the ring of authenticity.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Simi Horwitz
    The Bookshop
    The Bookshop is an exquisitely understated tragicomedy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 87 Simi Horwitz
    The Wife
    The Wife is an astute character study thanks in large part to Jane Anderson’s winning screenplay.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 85 Simi Horwitz
    Gavagai
    Gavagai is a curiosity and nonetheless remarkable in its own way. Slow (very slow) paced, it’s a meditative, haunting and lyrical film that explores the many layers of love and grief.

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