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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary Victor Tellez, a world-weary Buenos Aires film critic, prefers to think in French and eschews romantic clichés...until he finds himself living one. Riddled with ennui and the maladie du cinema, Tellez drifts from screening to screening in search of cinematic perfection, casting judgment on filmmakers and their films with scathing incisi...

Directed By: Hernán Guerschuny

Written By: Hernán Guerschuny

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 38 m

The Film Critic

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
40
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Summary Victor Tellez, a world-weary Buenos Aires film critic, prefers to think in French and eschews romantic clichés...until he finds himself living one. Riddled with ennui and the maladie du cinema, Tellez drifts from screening to screening in search of cinematic perfection, casting judgment on filmmakers and their films with scathing incisi...

Directed By: Hernán Guerschuny

Written By: Hernán Guerschuny

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
40
17% Positive
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
40
17% Positive
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review

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63
May 15, 2015
The Film Critic takes a light and knowing tone, spoofing the sacred cows of the critic world, and cramming every scene with visual film clichés that act like a "Where's Waldo?" of cinema.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
50
May 21, 2015
Although the meta-style conceit is fun, it doesn't fully kick in until the film's midpoint. Until then it's a sluggish, fairly dour ride.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
50
May 13, 2015
The whole movie is encased in air quotes, and its sole purpose, apart from that winking, is to argue that even artsy-fartsy grumps secretly identify with Hollywood wish-fulfillment. Would Guerschuny the film critic have liked The Film Critic? If so, he’s a soft touch.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
40
May 14, 2015
The Film Critic is at once too clever by half and not as smart as it pretends to be.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
40
May 13, 2015
Criticism mutated long ago, after the internet's floodgates opened, and that outmoded disconnect between The Film Critic and today's film critics underscores how the persistent references to cinema and film writing are self-awarely mimicking clichés but not subverting them.
By Aaron Hillis FULL REVIEW
25
May 10, 2015
It perverts cinephilia by asserting that anyone who engages in criticism actually, deep down, wants to be a practicing artist.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Haciendo Cine, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), Lagarto Cine, Programa Ibermedia, Storyboard Media
Release Date May 15, 2015
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline What if your life becomes a movie...that you hate?
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Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina
• 3 Nominations
Gramado Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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