Red Island
Film Movement | Release Date: August 16, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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100
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 26, 2024
It’s a compelling, visually exquisite piece of work. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesAug 15, 2024
The director’s best-known film, “BPM,” drew from his later experience as an AIDS activist, and whereas that was an insular, immediate and impassioned portrait of a movement, Red Island takes a lusher, more leisurely approach to its mix of history and memory. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJul 26, 2024
It captures beautifully and atmospherically a sense of mounting tension as the military men grapple with their impotency in a newly independent country. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeMar 10, 2024
Its autobiographical elements are keenly felt, as Campillo grapples intelligently not just with the blind spots of his personal past, but those of his national heritage. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineRyan SwenAug 15, 2024
Red Island is at once lackadaisical and urgent, relaxed but with a clear eye for how swiftly everything will end for the characters at its center. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 15, 2024
Red Island is by turns seductively sultry and frustratingly elliptical, with a structure that brings to mind matryoshka dolls, those colorful nesting figurines of differing sizes. For the most part, Campillo introduces these nesting elements just fine; it’s integrating them that proves difficult. Read full review
58
The Film StageAlistair RyderJul 26, 2024
The film may not hold together cohesively, but it’s still quite mystifying why it so spectacularly failed to resonate when its greatest sequences are beautiful evocations of the director’s childhood, both real and imagined, even if it is forever destined to live in the shadow of his previous semi-autobiographical work. Read full review
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