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Diego Semerene

Diego Semerene's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Jimpa (2025) 55% 1.5/4 EDIT “Jimpa’s exploration of non-binary identity ultimately proves superficial.” – Slant Magazine Feb 3, 2026 Full Review I Only Rest in the Storm (2025) 79% 1.5/4 EDIT “In the film, pedagogy even has to share space with the carnal frisson of the dance floor.” – Slant Magazine Aug 29, 2025 Full Review The Gullspång Miracle (2023) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film is a philosophical account of the shaky ground that human existence stands on.” – Slant Magazine Apr 27, 2025 Full Review Young Hearts (2024) 92% 3/4 EDIT “The film truthfully hints at the sharp whirs behind the smooth façade of everyday life.” – Slant Magazine Mar 9, 2025 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 80% 3/4 EDIT “The Ice Tower is, ultimately, an aesthetic and nostalgic exercise. ” – Slant Magazine Feb 22, 2025 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Radu Jude’s cinema isn’t exactly absurdist, though it exposes the absurdities of a present reeling from the unresolved injustices of yore.” – Slant Magazine Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Dreams (2025) 68% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film exposes the incontestable American art of getting more with blunt obviousness.” – Slant Magazine Feb 18, 2025 Full Review 20,000 Species of Bees (2023) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film blooms in moments where, instead of literally addressing Coco's gender trouble, we’re simply allowed to inhabit it.” – Slant Magazine Jun 10, 2024 Full Review Banel & Adama (2023) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “In the end, Banel & Adama is most memorable when it forgets to push the story forward and wallows in the painterly, or allegorical, registers of its images.” – Slant Magazine Jun 3, 2024 Full Review High & Low - John Galliano (2023) 87% 1/4 EDIT “The film shamelessly announces from the very start that it’s an attempt at atonement for disgraced designer John Galliano.” – Slant Magazine Mar 3, 2024 Full Review Dying (2024) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film’s diligent script and nuanced performances are such that the depressing material stops short of turning into a depressing experience.” – Slant Magazine Feb 26, 2024 Full Review Another End (2024) 29% 2.5/4 EDIT “Despite its initially familiar trajectory, Another End disarmingly and purposefully sweeps us away on a wave of apathy not unlike that which plagues its main character, challenging our sense of who we fundamentally are as humans.” – Slant Magazine Feb 22, 2024 Full Review Langue Étrangère (2024) 83% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film finds its profundity in moments where not much is said and nothing is intellectualized, when language is stripped to its bare bones.” – Slant Magazine Feb 20, 2024 Full Review About Dry Grasses (2023) 92% 3.5 EDIT “Above all, the film captures how easy it is to deposit too much hope on the few who represent dissent, or freedom, when one is trapped. ” – Slant Magazine Sep 7, 2023 Full Review The Eternal Memory (2023) 92% 3/4 EDIT “Maite Alberdi’s film slowly reveals the personal loss of the ability to remember as inextricably linked to the loss of national memory. ” – Slant Magazine Aug 7, 2023 Full Review KOKOMO CITY (2023) 99% 2.5/4 EDIT “It only gestures toward an exploration of who its male subjects are both because its visual language, as exciting as it is, calls so much attention to itself, subsuming everything else, and because there’s only so much that the men are willing to share.” – Slant Magazine Jul 23, 2023 Full Review The Stroll (2023) 95% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Stroll is overtly broad, detached, and full of ready-made empowerment rhetoric.” – Slant Magazine Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Other People's Children (2022) 91% 3/4 EDIT “The film’s most authentic moments are those that leave its main character breathless, cutting her plans for making up for lost time short.” – Slant Magazine Apr 16, 2023 Full Review Joyland (2022) 98% 4/4 EDIT “Joyland’s dignity is in its commitment to realism.” – Slant Magazine Apr 1, 2023 Full Review The Plough (2023) 50% 2/4 EDIT “The sort of gravitas that seems necessary for the most satisfying of French clichés to amount to playful reworkings, not tired repetitions, only makes a few appearances throughout the film.” – Slant Magazine Feb 26, 2023 Full Review Disco Boy (2023) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “Lack of clarity, it turns out, is what makes Disco Boy so enjoyable, and imbues it with gravitas.” – Slant Magazine Feb 23, 2023 Full Review Blue Jean (2022) 96% 3/4 EDIT “Blue Jean is most remarkable when it simply observes its main character as she exists in her unmanageable world.” – Slant Magazine Feb 3, 2023 Full Review The Blue Caftan (2022) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film is best experienced by simply wallowing in the lushness of its fabrics, sartorial and symbolic alike, refusing the temptation to unspool its poetic parallels.” – Slant Magazine Feb 1, 2023 Full Review Close (2022) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film reminds us that any coming of age is a risky business where finitude and mourning are the only guarantees.” – Slant Magazine Jan 16, 2023 Full Review Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams (2020) 78% 2/4 EDIT “The focus on Ferragamo’s craft, and the very structure of manufacture, is exciting, but the narrative’s tendency to embody the opposite of his innovativeness feels lazy and contradictory. ” – Slant Magazine Oct 31, 2022 Full Review
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