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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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The TelegraphRobbie CollinSep 6, 2016
Its salvaged parts combine into an internally incongruous but crazily unique whole. Read full review
90
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 22, 2017
It is a fluent and knowing pastiche of genres and styles with a brazen and vigorous wit of its own. Read full review
90
Village VoiceApril WolfeJun 22, 2017
No matter how confounding the story gets, details and humor ground the narrative, and a simple guiding premise about the importance of human connection and artistic expression fills in the blanks. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnSep 6, 2016
The Bad Batch further solidifies the strength of Amirpour’s idiosyncratic vision, which takes familiar details and bends them into spiky bursts of unpredictability. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiJun 21, 2017
Amirpour could have reined in her penchant for laconic coolness at times, but where’s the fun in that? This fractured fairy tale of the marginalized have-nots and the bonds they forge continues the director’s obsession for the genre films she grew up with while adding her own contemporary sensibilities, and the result is an ultimately satisfying journey. Read full review
75
MTV NewsAmy NicholsonJun 22, 2017
This is the type of fantasy that admits its characters get sunburned and dirty and need to, er, use the bathroom. It takes a female director to allow her female star to be this un-vain. Amirpour would rather be bold than beautiful. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJun 22, 2017
In addition to presenting a parable about the collapse of society, Amirpour’s film is also a kind of postmodern Adam-and-Eve story. Read full review
75
The Film StageRory O'ConnorSep 6, 2016
There is a great deal to savor here and yet it’s hard to shake the sense that The Bad Batch is a film stuck in neutral. We await that kick into a higher gear but it’s just too cool to be bothered. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 6, 2016
Even when the dramatic momentum slackens, the movie's grindhouse world remains vividly rendered and immersive. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 22, 2017
Amirpour dips into an seemingly bottomless supply of signs and symbols to show us an imploding society all too recognizable as our own, and you'll marvel at hallucinatory brilliance of her images. Yet The Bad Batch never finds a way to fuse its scattered intentions into a cohesive whole. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Julia CooperJun 22, 2017
No character goes unscathed in this brutally violent movie, but Amirpour is especially careless with her black subjects – a painful misstep in an otherwise clear-eyed, unflinching critique of American despotism. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJun 18, 2017
Ana Lily Amirpour has learned a few lessons from QT about the disreputable joys of blending kitsch and ultraviolence. Read full review
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