Human Factors
Dark Star Pictures | Release Date: May 6, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMay 6, 2022
Trocker is deft at creating situations that go right up to the edge of blatant symbolism or metaphor, bit resist the urge to pitch themselves over the brink and become blatant and simplistic. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWes GreeneMay 2, 2022
Despite the mystery of the home invasion becoming increasingly tangential, Human Factors remains a compelling puzzle-box. Read full review
70
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMay 2, 2022
This deviously constructed puzzle film plays cat and mouse (or to be exact, pet rat) with the viewer, yields subtly disconcerting insights into the fault lines of bourgeois life, and features terrific lead performances from Sabine Timoteo and Mark Waschke. Read full review
70
Film ThreatAlex SavelievMay 2, 2022
A bit too somber and detached for its own good, Human Factors nevertheless marks another strong entry from a filmmaker who – after several shorts, a documentary, and one other feature – is just getting started. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMay 6, 2022
Trocker’s insights into a family crumbling due to a lack of trust aren’t all that fresh or keen, but his movie is tense and absorbing regardless, because he and his cast excel at dramatizing the lingering resentments and passive-aggression that foul the air between loved ones. Read full review
60
CineVueMatthew AndersonMay 2, 2022
A challenging and very well considered inspection of familial disintegration, featuring strong performances, Human Factors is a solid entry in the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Read full review
58
The PlaylistChristian GallichioMay 2, 2022
While Trocker attempts to connect the form to the content of the film, he gets lost in his formalist conceits, never creating fully realized characters to hold the weight of his structural choices. Read full review
58
The Film StageDiego AndaluzMay 2, 2022
The well-directed sophomore narrative feature ultimately loses itself, placing more importance on its central theme of interpersonal interactions while firmly rejecting a more fleshed-out, compelling story. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonMay 5, 2022
The tone is too rigidly intellectual for the movie to succeed as a tense thriller. But the actors are up to the challenge of not so much sharing scenes as coexisting within them, particularly Timoteo as the embittered wife who roils like a teakettle that has been welded shut. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 2, 2022
Trocker’s second feature (following 2016’s “The Eremites”) never quite manages to make good on its gamesmanship and only allows itself to have any fun once it’s sure that nobody else is. Read full review
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