The Bad Batch
Screen Media Films | Release Date: June 23, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
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12
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12
Negative:
1
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50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 22, 2017
While it’s visually arresting, it’s a disappointment. It’s too on the nose as a political allegory, and too lacking in coherent narrative to satisfy as a hipster comedy-drama. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 21, 2017
Amirpour has the potential to see things as no other filmmaker does, but she doesn’t yet have a vision, and she may not as long as she keeps fiddling around with genre conventions laid down by others. She’s an eccentric magpie of a director, and this time the pieces she collects glitter but never quite cohere. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 22, 2017
The talented writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour raises the crazy stakes with a well-made, sometimes darkly funny and at times bizarrely entertaining film that eventually falls apart due to directorial self-indulgence, excessive grotesquery, a bloated running time, too many half-baked messages—and let’s not forget the distractingly campy appearances by Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey. Read full review
40
CineVueJohn BleasdaleSep 6, 2016
Amirpour is a talented director with a wonderful eye but her style lacks substance and her obvious influences - the Mad Max franchise and the wonderful LQ Jones film A Boy and his Dog - are so superior as to almost completely nullify her derivative contribution to the genre. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJun 22, 2017
Amirpour has vision to burn, and inside this not-so-bad batch of splendid atmospherics and half-baked ideas is a leaner, sharper movie trying to chew its way out. Read full review
40
Screen DailyLee MarshallSep 6, 2016
After the tense opening, coherent drama goes by the board. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeJun 21, 2017
Trouble is, it’s still 2017, and although our culture keeps getting more intensely ironic all the time, we’re not quite yet to the point where this level of artifice is easily digestible. Read full review
60
The GuardianAndrew PulverSep 6, 2016
The film doesn’t quite live up to its creepy, savage opening, or carry through its best ideas. Read full review
50
The New YorkerRichard BrodyJun 27, 2017
The writer and director, Ana Lily Amirpour, delivers this imaginative tale as a simplistic allegory of the haves and the have-nots; she ruefully delights in the wasteland’s postindustrial wreckage while leaving characters’ thoughts and motives blank. Read full review
50
The PlaylistJessica KiangSep 6, 2016
The perils of the broader-canvas follow-up to the sleek and economical indie debut are writ large: this is “Difficult Second Album: The Movie.” Read full review
50
TheWrapTricia OlszewskiJun 23, 2017
The Bad Batch feels less like a coherent film and more like a pastiche. Read full review
60
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 6, 2016
Though there’s much to savor in the pic’s lavishly distressed visuals and soundscape, its narrative feels increasingly stretched and desultory. Read full review
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