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Wild Tigers I Have Known
Metascore
52 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    75
    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.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    Archer isn't necessarily taking us anywhere new, but his movie's rapture is beautiful inside and out.
  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Bill White
    75
    Not simply a coming-out story but a journey into the conflicted androgyny of early adolescence.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    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."
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    63
    The low-low budget ($50,000) coming-of-age drama, shot on high-def video, is nothing if not daring and innovative.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Richard James Havis
    60
    Tigers shares a penchant for rigorous self-analysis with such relatively recent films as "Chumscrubber," "Mysterious Skin" and "Tarnation."
  7. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Don R. Lewis
    60
    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.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Ed Gonzalez
    50
    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.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    50
    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.
  10. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    40
    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.
  11. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    0
    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.
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