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

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  • 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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    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    The American Sector
    The film accomplishes a restoration of sorts, allowing us to see how historical objects can confer meaning on a new context.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    The Perfect Candidate
    The film’s aesthetic, understandably fused with its protagonist’s dogged can-do attitude, is both the source and limitation of its power.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    The Banishing
    Christopher Smith’s film applies the haunted house trope in unfamiliar ways.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 William Repass
    Chaos Walking
    Beneath its perfectly entertaining surface, the film is a mess of contradictions that fails to live up to its own potential.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 William Repass
    Lost Course
    What distinguishes the film from ordinary journalism, and what constitutes its intervention in reality, is a difference in timescale.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    Test Pattern
    The film strikingly punctuates the detachment of realist drama with the expressionism of psychological horror.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    Madre
    Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s feature-length Madre contemplates how memories of loss linger and distort the present.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    Matter Out of Place
    Consisting largely of long takes sans music or commentary, the film uncovers the paradox that trash, so apparently devoid of meaning or use-value, needs little commentary.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 William Repass
    What We Left Unfinished
    Mariam Ghani’s documentary spurs audiences to consider the politics that underlies any artistic activity.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    The Oak
    The film’s naïve utopianism is infectious, demanding that we live as though life were worth it in spite of all evidence to the contrary.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 William Repass
    Black God, White Devil
    By depicting revolutionary fiascos in a critical yet sympathetic light, Glauber Rocha calls on us to imagine what we’d want a revolution to look like, rather than having it spoon-fed to us by those claiming to represent a power beyond ourselves.
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