William Repass

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For 107 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 62% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

William Repass' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 88 The Currents
Lowest review score: 25 Moffie
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 94 out of 107
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 107
  3. Negative: 2 out of 107
107 movie reviews
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 William Repass
    Gods of Mexico
    If Gods of Mexico harkens back to certain traditions of visual representation, Helmut Donsantos’s counterintuitive recombination of what would seem to be mutually exclusive inspirations, each with its own temporal framework, allows him to offer for our contemplation a vision uniquely his own.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 William Repass
    The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
    The film is an object lesson in what can result when a work of art subordinates itself to a message.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    Kill It and Leave This Town
    Mariusz Wilczyński’s animation style strikes an unlikely balance between the childlike and the proficient.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 William Repass
    Late Shift
    For all its empathy, Late Shift upholds the dubious virtue of self-sacrifice that underpins the Protestant work ethic.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 25 William Repass
    Moffie
    Oliver Hermanus’s film is a rumination on the consequences of apartheid on those who benefit from it most.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    The Night
    It’s at the juncture between horror and philosophical surrealism that Kourosh Ahari’s film is at its most provocative.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    Come True
    The film offers a glimpse of a world where screens are pores in the boundary between dreams and waking life.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Omen
    The patchwork structure of Omen is suited to the complexity a setting where characters switch between French, Swahili, and English depending on who they want to keep in the dark. Yet it’s difficult to shake that there are too many threads for a film of this length to do them justice.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Invention
    Courtney Stephens’s film blends fiction and autobiography to fascinating implications.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 William Repass
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    However faithfully the film transposes the plot and themes of the source material, it struggles to capture the spirit, ironing out D.H. Lawrence’s modernity-skeptical modernism and losing sight of his poetic vision.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 William Repass
    Meanwhile on Earth
    The overbearing plot of the film sadly obscures the humanity of its characters.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Desert of Namibia
    The film is so welded to its main character’s perspective that it, too, shies away from understanding, tragic and frustrating in equal measure.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    Charlatan
    Throughout the film, Agnieszka Holland makes clear that she isn’t interested in easily digestible pop-psychology nuggets.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Please Baby Please
    The film’s unapologetic level of artifice is at once the source of its pleasures and limitations.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 William Repass
    Digger
    Georgis Grigorakis’s film may not revolutionize the western genre by transposing it to an unlikely setting, but it doesn’t dilute it either.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    The Feast
    The Feast makes a stab at drawing out modern, very real anxieties around wealth disparity and ecological devastation without falling back on genre tropes, asking us to consider how the land itself may come to feast on the rich.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Bring Them Down
    Bring Them Down uncovers an organic affinity between the genre mainstay of vengeance taking on a life of its own and the force exerted by paternal tradition.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    By Design
    By forcing us to identify with its largely comatose protagonist, By Design arouses resentment in order to shake us out of torpor.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    The Assessment
    The Assessment works its way through intriguing conundrums about the motivations and qualifications of parenthood, as well as the power dynamics at play between parents and children.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Black Box
    The film ruminates on how virtuality infiltrates the deepest regions of our subconscious to reprogram the inner workings of the self.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Dream Team
    Dream Team’s absurdist brand flirts with an art-for-art’s-sake disengagement: the meaningless void as light entertainment, yet another opportunity for burying our heads in the sand.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    Between Two Worlds
    Even when the film becomes something like a spy thriller, it never loses sight of its political themes.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    Bad Tales
    Narration, as the film reminds us, isn’t only a diversion but a form of authority, of power, and when authority is least conspicuous, it’s often at its most insidious.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Lux Æterna
    If the film-within-the-film is a vapid fetishization of women’s martyrdom, Lux Æterna is a willful exercise in repulsing its own audience.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Mother, Couch
    Other than a sort of wistful quirkiness, it’s not clear what Mother, Couch gains by skewing away from a more straightforward, streamlined family drama.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 William Repass
    Spin Me Round
    Cleansed of all risk and personality, Spin Me Round subsides, as though with a sigh, into the reheated sauce of mediocrity.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    Rabbit Trap
    It’s when the film plays in the gaps between sound and image that it’s most disturbing.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 William Repass
    Barbarians
    Throughout, Barbarians oscillates between smugness and apprehensiveness about the film that it’s trying to be.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Settlers
    Settlers allows for weighty themes to play out inside a cramped domestic setting, wary of easy answers or moral platitudes.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 William Repass
    The Empire
    Notable as it is for evoking a kind of cosmic banality, writer-director Bruno Dumont’s anti-space opera The Empire runs into same the pitfall as many parodies of its kind.
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