Archenemy
RLJE Films | Release Date: December 11, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
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5
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4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Film ThreatLorry KiktaDec 9, 2020
Archenemy is an absolute must-watch. Read full review
70
Little White LiesAnton BitelApr 5, 2022
Whether Archenemy is a tale of genuine urban renewal, or merely of power shifting without any real underlying change, remains tantalisingly ambiguous. Read full review
70
Screen RantJack WilhelmiDec 10, 2020
The movie's superhero-laden backbone is meant to support a deeper message. Adam Egypt Mortimer's Archenemy is a painful reminder of how society fails people, and bleeds colorful nuance and thematic messaging in every frame. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakDec 10, 2020
What’s really great about Archenemy is that Mortimer never shies away from that darkness. By toeing the line of mental illness, he can expose the cost of comic book heroics and the evil being fought against. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyDec 14, 2020
Writer/director Adam Egypt Mortimer is clearly a movie-mad soul, and if he can get a little further out from under his influences he may concoct something a more consistently geekily transportive. Read full review
60
The GuardianLeslie FelperinFeb 19, 2021
Small, imperfectly formed but quite entertaining all the same. Read full review
50
The PlaylistMike DeAngeloMay 27, 2021
What you’re left with is a mixed bag of colorful, bizarro superhero world-building and threadbare characters that leaves the viewer with little-to-no interest in what happens next. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerDec 11, 2020
Mortimer, coming off his critically-acclaimed and award-winning debut Daniel Isn't Real, never quite strikes a tone or a pace that suits his tale of a (potentially) fractured mind. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeDec 10, 2020
A critique of post-millennial journalism is one of several ideas raised but mostly abandoned in this genre pastiche, which never really coalesces despite some promising elements. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 9, 2020
The dialogue has its moments, but the jokes are too sparse to buttress the arch, comic book camp tone Mr. Adam Egypt Mortimer was going for. And while the wigs are fabulous and the effects interesting, it’s all something of a hash. Coherent enough, sure, but making sense of it seems like a fool’s errand, start to finish. Read full review
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