VHYes
Oscilloscope | Release Date: January 12, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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5
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4
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Film ThreatLorry KiktaJan 20, 2020
Check out VHYES if you want to see the most original film to come out in ages. Read full review
87
PolygonKaren HanJan 17, 2020
The strangeness of the material isn’t VHYES’ primary attraction; it’s the atypical mode of storytelling and sense of sincerity. Read full review
79
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpJan 15, 2020
Think of the film as an extended cousin of Too Many Cooks, where parody gives way to weirdness, which gives way to surrealism, which gives way to genuine horror by the end. Bonkers as the combination sounds, and it is unimpeachably bonkers, the effect of their marriage is hypnotic. Read full review
70
Screen DailyWendy IdeJan 24, 2020
Deliberately scattershot and naïve, this engaging, absurdist collage, shot entirely on VHS tape, smuggles a serious message beneath its 80s poodle-permed public access television pastiche. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJan 15, 2020
Television is reality, and reality is less than television. And that is, by the end of the 72-minute-long VHYes’ gleefully immersive, intermittently profound “found footage,” a lesson Ralph osmotically absorbs through the VHS viewfinder of his life. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 16, 2020
Though hardly groundbreaking in either its content or its aesthetics, the film is more serious than it initially lets on, and can only benefit from the VHS nostalgia that has, often irrationally, taken root in some quarters. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Jan 16, 2020
Unfortunately, this handheld coming-of-age story is frequently interrupted by variably convincing stretches of channel surfing, as though someone recorded over much of the former with the latter. And even with pros like Charlyne Yi and Kerri Kenney lending their deadpan chops, real weird TV is funnier. Weirder, too. Read full review
58
The Film StageC.J. PrinceJan 15, 2020
A lot of the times the jokes feel reliant on the video format and its limitations, as if the video tracking and purposefully bad production qualities can fill the gap between ideas and execution. Instead, the gap gets filled with memories of shows and movies that do a better job at the same thing. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis HarveyJan 18, 2020
The best thing the film has going for it is editor Avner Shiloah’s scrambled channel-surfing assembly, which seldom sticks with any bit long enough for it to get too stale. Still, VHYes feels overextended even at the 66 slim minutes it takes to reach the final credits. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineClayton DillardJan 12, 2020
The film settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJan 16, 2020
Even when the ghost of a point materializes — that recording ephemera can be a self-soothing behavior — VHYes is too unsophisticated to develop it. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comNick AllenJan 17, 2020
I didn't see what was funny about the shallow wackiness of VHYes. Read full review
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