Gemini
| Release Date: March 30, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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21
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7
Negative:
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
SalonMax CeaJun 27, 2017
Though it’s not a film that will enter the canon of cinematic classics, it is nearly perfect, with ample heart, humor and tragedy-tinged humanity. Read full review
91
The Film StageJose SolísJun 14, 2017
It’s clear that Katz is more interested in the idea of playing with movie conventions than with crafting anything remotely resembling reality. It’s a joy to immerse oneself in his cool, neon-lit world, a place where movie characters speak like movie characters and the dream of justice is inescapable, even if the movies have taught us better. Read full review
91
IndieWireEric KohnMar 16, 2017
Gemini resists easy categorization, evades tidy plot points and sometimes lead to frustrating dead ends. But it’s an absorbing world defined by open-ended possibilities, a kind of comedic psychological thriller in which the thrills exist in air quotes. Read full review
91
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezMar 16, 2017
Gemini is deliriously entertaining, an intriguing gem and as Katz graduates to the next level, his best film to date. Read full review
90
Village VoiceDanny KingApr 5, 2018
For all the sharp-witted conversations and pinpoint performances, Gemini most impresses as a piece of clean, confident visual storytelling. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 29, 2018
You sense the messier aesthetics of Katz's mumblecore origins have fallen away to reveal a born alchemist of story and imagery — in its arresting visual tour of L.A.'s groovy neighborhoods and rich hideaways, Gemini captures a secret, abiding and even menacing melancholy behind its oft-regarded surfaces. Read full review
90
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 16, 2017
For a director who emerged from indie film’s so-called “mumblecore” movement, Gemini feels like a grown-up achievement, and the sign of a director with so much more to give in the future. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenMar 27, 2018
With Gemini, Aaron Katz does his cover of the Los Angeles-set murder mystery, homing in on the genre's evocative loneliness. Read full review
85
TheWrapSam FragosoMar 16, 2017
Gemini strives to be something different — something more ambitious, more potent. The results vary, as will your mileage. But the thing to remember about swinging and missing is that you still swung. Katz is putting himself in the game, and more often than not, he connects Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMar 27, 2018
As visually appealing as much of Gemini is, it wouldn’t work nearly so well without Lola Kirke playing Jill. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMar 16, 2017
While the payoff could have used some extra punch, the teasing path that leads there is bewitching, with Lola Kirke serving as an enigmatic guide. Read full review
80
ScreenCrushBritt HayesMar 16, 2017
In this current era of spoiler-driven pop culture, films like Gemini, which place a higher premium on storytelling, performances, and character-building than on the “big twist” at the end, feel like an act of beautiful rebellion. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 20, 2018
Katz’s script, settings and characters surprise and delight, and Kirke, Kravitz and Cho deliver performances perfectly in sync with a murder mystery set in Hollywood. Read full review
75
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonApr 4, 2018
At first the flippant tone of some of these scenes seems a bit off, but the movie (full of narrative curves) eventually makes tonal sense. The movie’s epilogue sends us out on a flat note, but Kirke, and her character, make an impression. Read full review
75
Rolling StoneDavid FearApr 4, 2018
It may feel insubstantial at times, but somewhere out there, there's a twin of this film that lays on the L.A. Self-Owns Itself mojo in thick clumps. Gemini is the good-sibling version. It's worth a whirl. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comJustine SmithMar 30, 2018
Gemini has a breezy lethargy and the characters always look on the brink of sleep. With a cobalt and ultraviolet color scheme and a jazzy score, the movie seems to be cast in the dreariness of Hollywood dreams. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaApr 5, 2018
As mysteries go, writer-director Aaron Katz hasn't really created an effective one. Gemini is entertaining, but Jill isn't much of a detective, and the big puzzle at the center of the film just sort of falls together. You never completely check out of the plot, but don't feel fully invested, either. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaMar 30, 2018
The film’s conclusion leaves a lot to be desired, which is unfortunate given how well it weaves its atmosphere and small ensemble together. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 29, 2018
What really interests Mr. Katz here are movies — the fingerprints of directors like Robert Altman, David Lynch, Michael Mann and Sean Baker are all on Gemini — and how they have shaped Los Angeles, or at least our ideas about it. Read full review
70
Screen DailyDavid D'ArcyMar 16, 2017
There’s plenty of Lynch-light in dark interiors and empty staircases as Katz’s portrait of hipster La La Land winds through familiar territory. Gemini may not show too much that’s novel about that noir world, but we see new strengths in its lead actress. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovApr 4, 2018
A neon-drenched murder mystery – or is it? – for the selfie generation, set in the hipster hamlet of Silverlake. So it goes with this highly stylized slice of bad, black millennial noir, a post-mumblecore take on the shady underbelly of L.A. in which Los Angeles plays itself, very nearly upstaging the main characters’ plight. Read full review
60
The AtlanticDavid SimsMar 30, 2018
Don’t call Gemini a neo-noir—call it a neon-noir, a moody little slice of pulp fiction that ends up satisfying the eyes more than the mind. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMar 29, 2018
Is Gemini on the level of classic L.A. films like Heat or The Player? Hardly. But you sink into its mood, and that’s enough. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMar 26, 2018
All style and mood, signifying not much. Read full review
58
ConsequenceMarten CarlsonApr 4, 2017
The faults of Gemini are in its screenplay, and Katz’s inability to sustain interesting character dynamics and maintain a consistent narrative. As a director, Gemini is easily Katz’s most confident outing to date. Read full review
57
IGNJosh LasserApr 5, 2018
When is a murder mystery not about the murder or the mystery? When it's as beautiful-looking as Gemini. Read full review
50
The Associated PressLindsey BahrMar 28, 2018
Glum and meandering, the Los Angeles-set mystery about a Hollywood starlet and her assistant starts off promising enough but trudges along aimlessly to a deeply silly and maddening end. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneMar 26, 2018
The cracking of the mystery, at the conclusion of Gemini, is daft and unsatisfying, but no matter. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 5, 2018
The real problem isn’t an overabundance of potential killers. Rather, it’s the fact that the film, from writer-director Aaron Katz (“Land Ho!”), does so little to make you care about the crime, or its victim, that the whole thing feels like an academic exercise. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonApr 4, 2018
It is such a soul-killing exercise in narcissism — and not a very smart thriller, either — that yeah, you can buy into the notion that Tinseltown is a total drag. Read full review
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