Users
Icarus Films | Release Date: June 9, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Slant MagazineWes GreeneJun 9, 2023
The film’s triumph is keeping us on our toes by sending us into an ether where fear and wonder live hand in hand. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnJun 9, 2023
Users lacks clarity, sliding along in moment-to-moment beauty with such confidence that it never seems too concerned with building a cohesive argument. But it’s never less than enthralling to get lost in this particular ether. Read full review
80
VoxAlissa WilkinsonJun 9, 2023
Directed by Natalia Almada and scored by the Kronos Quartet, the film feels a little symphonic, a mesmerizing exploration of how technology is transforming the ways we relate to the natural world. Read full review
70
Screen DailyWendy IdeJun 9, 2023
While its ideas might fail to fully coalesce, the film is unnervingly beautiful; an immersive and mesmeric aural and visual experience. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJun 9, 2023
Because Users is so captivating from a technical perspective, it’s frustrating to discover how scattered it is narratively. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinJun 9, 2023
Poetic, painterly work Users looks and sounds stunning, but remains thematically a little too diffuse for its own good as it meditates on our children and the future they will inhabit, where perfect machines replace imperfect parents. Read full review
60
The New York TimesDevika GirishJun 9, 2023
This negotiation between techno-pessimism and techno-fetishism is at the heart of Users, though Almada’s scattered movie struggles to keep them in balance; her broad, rhetorical voice-over is a poor match for the complexity of the film’s images. Read full review
50
The PlaylistJonathan ChristianJun 9, 2023
Users is too quiet to say anything provocative, too short to waste your time and too inconsequential to recommend to anyone searching for a fresh perspective on age-old material. Read full review
50
VarietyJessica KiangJun 9, 2023
In her voiceover, Almada, who has made one fiction feature but mostly works in documentary form, shuffles through half-formed ideas too randomly to gather these scattered wonders into an identifiable thesis. Read full review
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