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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88RogerEbert.comKatie RifeRogerEbert.comKatie RifeThis is one of those movies that shows rather than tells—always preferable, even in the moments when the big picture is still coming into focus.
- 80The New York TimesLisa KennedyThe New York TimesLisa KennedyLuminously photographed and nimbly edited, The Worst Ones — which won the Un Certain Regard competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022 — offers a provocative critique of filmmaking practices. It also presents a subtle defense of the onscreen miracles revealed by the young and the raw.
- 75Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardPart of what makes The Worst Ones tick with a pace close to that of a thriller is its self-reflexive relationship to genre and knack for referentiality.
- 67The Film StageChristian GallichioThe Film StageChristian GallichioAkoka and Gueret split the difference, inviting the audience to consider the meta-ness of everything going on while really just making a compelling social-realist comedy about what happens when a film crew descends on a working-class town. That the filmmakers end up making the same film as Gabriel seems to be the point.
- 60Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallThe Worst Ones is trying to be both a kind of documentary about its own making and a drama about a guy making another film. Unfortunately, the two don’t mesh.