Sylvio
Factory 25 | Release Date: October 13, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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90
The New YorkerRichard BrodyOct 12, 2017
The directors, Kentucker Audley (who co-stars as a talk-show host) and Albert Birney, embrace both sides of Sylvio’s temperament, realizing his frenzied outbursts (including a vehicular-chase scene) as imaginatively and as delicately as his self-doubt. Read full review
75
The Film StageJason OoiNov 29, 2017
Vine fad “Simply Sylvio” and its film adaptation — more plainly titled Sylvio — by directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley offer a tense amalgamation of lowbrow sensibilities and highbrow execution, which the anthropomorphic gorilla then beats into submission. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric KohnOct 12, 2017
The plight of the alienated monkey is at turns absurd and genuinely bittersweet, not to mention a whole lot better than its premise might suggest. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichOct 12, 2017
One thing's for certain: Not even Charles Darwin could fully figure this monkey out. Read full review
70
VarietyNick SchagerOct 12, 2017
Even when their bananas premise grows a bit stale, the directors prove at least semi-serious about their material’s rawer emotions, thereby making the film an uncanny character study about an alienated anthropomorphic primate who yearns to be himself. Read full review
70
Village VoiceDanny KingOct 12, 2017
Birney and Audley have an impressive visual sense — the smart framing and thrifty, ingenious production design (by Peter Davis) at times suggest a Wes Anderson–directed installment of Between Two Ferns — and also the good sense to lean on Birney’s nuanced physical performance. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineGreg CwikOct 10, 2017
Sylvio's banal depictions of everyday loneliness through the diurnal tedium of an anthropomorphic animal brings to mind BoJack Horseman, but without the caustic navel-gazing and self-destruction or the mordant pop-culture musings. Read full review
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