Bingo Hell
Amazon Prime Video | Release Date (Streaming): October 1, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesOct 13, 2021
Gigi Saul Guerrero is a Mexican director who works in Vancouver’s thriving female production-driven indie horror scene, as documented in Vancouver Video Vixens. After honing her talent with many shorts, television episodes, and anthology segments, she has arrived as a fully formed auteur with Bingo Hell. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeOct 12, 2021
A sometimes clunky but always bold blend of social satire and delirious style. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyOct 1, 2021
There’s enough warmth to Guerrero’s script, co-written with Shane McKenzie and Perry Blackshear, to paper over the odd rickety effect or wooden performance. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisSep 30, 2021
Despite the generally humorous vibe, Bingo Hell quietly accumulates an unignorable pathos. Read full review
60
The GuardianPhil HoadSep 29, 2021
It gets turgid in its final third but backed by director Gigi Saul Guerrero’s cartoonish punch, Barraza’s cantankerous grimace and hair-trigger rejoinders are a pure pleasure. Read full review
58
The PlaylistBrian TallericoSep 30, 2021
The film works when Barraza and Brake are allowed to go all-in but comes up just short of being called a winner when it takes itself a bit too seriously. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comNick AllenOct 1, 2021
Even with the poetic, vicious grin we can see from Brake’s gummy smile, feasting on the dreams of lovable people misguided by materialism, there’s far too little to fear, or think about. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis HarveyOct 1, 2021
It works hard stylistically to provide a good time. But that would have been a better bet had at least as much effort been put into a screenplay whose ideas, both comic and macabre, remain undernourished. Read full review
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