Wild Tigers I Have Known
IFC First Take | Release Date: February 28, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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5
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75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
fFrst-time feature filmmaker Cam Archer turns what might have been an exercise in salaciousness into a stylish visual poem about desire and adolescent alienation. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
Not simply a coming-out story but a journey into the conflicted androgyny of early adolescence. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Archer isn't necessarily taking us anywhere new, but his movie's rapture is beautiful inside and out. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Like "Twelve and Holding," another film from last year's New Directors series, Wild Tigers achingly sympathizes with the desperate lengths an obsessed adolescent will go to in pursuit of love. As you watch the movie, you pray that, in the language of "Tea and Sympathy," the future teachers of Logan's life lessons will "be kind." Read full review
63
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The low-low budget ($50,000) coming-of-age drama, shot on high-def video, is nothing if not daring and innovative. Read full review
60
Film ThreatDon R. Lewis
While the film feels a little creepy towards the end, Archer has a really amazing visual style and I can't wait to see what he comes up with next. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterRichard James Havis
Tigers shares a penchant for rigorous self-analysis with such relatively recent films as "Chumscrubber," "Mysterious Skin" and "Tarnation." Read full review
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
Striking and self-indulgent in equal measure, Cam Archer's first feature, Wild Tigers I Have Known, is an impressive declaration of talent that nonetheless gets a little drunk and disorderly at the trough of High Art. Arresting visual and sonic textures frequently overwhelm sketchy narrative, leaving surface provocation too seldom ballasted by deeper psychological truths or emotional impact. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesEd Gonzalez
The film is a persistent spectacle of audio-visual mood and twee posturing: Strange musical currencies underscore almost every scene, and Logan's acts of scoping and cocooning, in and out of Joey's planetary-themed bedroom, are punctuated with fuzzy video of animals on the hunt. Read full review
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L.A. WeeklyRobert Wilonsky
The film is distancing and off-putting, more a feat of look-at-me-ma derring-do than something resonant, meaningful and just the slightest bit moving. Read full review
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Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Fragmentation can be an artful method; it can also be the last refuge for someone who scarcely knows how to make a film. In the no-budget fantasia Wild Tigers I Have Known, the fragments are like a borrowed collage of gay coming-of-age tropes. Read full review
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