Robinson in Ruins
Metascore
71 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Mark Holcomb
    Jan 10, 2012
    90
    A rigorous, agile, scathingly funny reckoning with a city and society in the last stages of decline.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chris Cabin
    Jan 9, 2012
    88
    Robinson's very name ties him to explorers like Crusoe and Walden, but he is also something like JLG's whispering leftist prankster who butted into 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her to intermittently spout rhetoric over images of freeways and construction sites.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    Jan 9, 2012
    80
    Keiller's follow up to his cine-essays London and Robinson In Space is another intelligent, thought-provoking piece of filmmaking.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leslie Felperin
    Jan 9, 2012
    70
    Although rich in ideas and always compelling to look at, writer-helmer Patrick Keiller's latest semi-experimental pic Robinson in Ruins reps a minor disappointment after his outstanding, same-veined previous works, "London" and "Robinson in Space."
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Andy Webster
    Jan 12, 2012
    60
    An exaltation of life counters the intimations of extinction, trumping the polemical despair.
  6. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    Jan 10, 2012
    60
    Comparable works like John Gianvito's "Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind," or nearly anything from cine-essayist Chris Marker's oeuvre, mine similar territory much more rewardingly.

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