Uppercase Print
Big World Pictures | Release Date: November 10, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesDevika GirishNov 11, 2021
The film, a rousing, form-bending new feature by the Romanian auteur Radu Jude, rails at the tyrannical potential of language — particularly when backed by government power — to suffocate people’s freedoms. Read full review
90
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyNov 8, 2021
Working with Carbunariu, Jude offers a spare, visually striking evocation of the methods of Ceausescu’s secret police, the Securitate, in its pursuit and punishment of a young dissident. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiJan 19, 2022
Jude and Cărbunariu have brought Mugur Călinescu back to life, and woven him into a complex tapestry that reveals a country’s history as a most fragile trompe l’oeil. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarNov 19, 2021
Shouting in all-caps about unions and shortages of food, Călinescu symbolizes the power of individuals that dare to discern from their own personal trenches, regardless of how insignificant they may seem. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonNov 8, 2021
This may be one of Jude’s minor works, but it delivers a quietly devastating emotional punch. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 8, 2021
It is a fierce and impassioned denunciation of evil. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassNov 8, 2021
The film metatextually insists that we not be taken in by new, more sophisticated methods of obfuscation. Read full review
70
The New YorkerRichard BrodyNov 9, 2021
Jude, with his multiple dimensions of inquiry and imagination, poses philosophical questions about conscience and consciousness, media consumption and social order, that reach far beyond the case and era at hand to challenge the deceptions and delusions of ostensible present-day democracies. Read full review
70
VarietyJessica KiangNov 8, 2021
In Uppercase Print, the fangs of the past are sharp, but muzzled. Read full review
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