Advantageous
| Release Date: June 26, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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4
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4
Negative:
1
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80
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJun 23, 2015
Challenging viewers this way — denying clean resolutions, chucking out the urgent drama of the first hour of movie — is bound to alienate some audiences. But from its arresting first scenes, Phang's film is as much about why? as it is what next? Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonJun 25, 2015
The Bay Area filmmaker’s Sundance Prize-winning film achieves much on a relatively meager budget (it has an impressive futuristic visual design), and the last half hour is so irresistibly creepy that it’s sure to invoke discussion after the screening. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 25, 2015
It’s a kick to see how effectively Ms. Phang has created the future on a shoestring even if she hasn’t yet figured out how to turn all her smart ideas into a fully realized feature. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerJun 25, 2015
As in a lot of good sci-fi, the movie is set in a particular world, but driven by the characters that inhabit it. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJordan HoffmanJun 25, 2015
This is dark stuff, but a striking humanity shines through. Read full review
60
VarietyDennis HarveyJun 23, 2015
Advantageous presents an offbeat, intimate dystopian vision that is strongly intriguing for a while. But just when it should shift from a focus on ideas to emotional involvement, the pic instead grows slower and less engaging. Read full review
60
The DissolveMike D'AngeloJun 23, 2015
The ideas are admirably heady, and Phang, making just her second feature (after 2008’s little-seen Half-Life), demonstrates a sure hand with both her imaginative milieu and her cast. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinJun 23, 2015
It’s no surprise to learn this was developed from a short film; it has a short’s fragmented, tone-poem quality, but not the sustained coherence of a feature. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneJun 24, 2015
The dialogue is so disaffected it's as if humans were replicants even before going through the aforementioned twin-making procedure. Read full review
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