It’s a story about a film critic who finds love in the corniest way and resonated with me beyond its dumb exterior and forgiveness towards rom coms.

| Dec 1, 2023

The disgruntled filmmaker subplot is clunky, but critiquing genre through genre is a clever conceit.

| Aug 21, 2017

The only thing more boring than a movie about movies is a movie about a movie critic.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 14, 2015

The movie's best at wry humor, especially in the way Victor wrests control of the picture back to his own taste (the ending of The Film Critic is the sort he prefers).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2015

A Mbius strip, a seductive surface where reality and cinema twist into one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 11, 2015

Lacking more defined instincts for either comedy or drama, The Film Critic exists in a muddled, mushy middle ground.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jun 4, 2015

Like so many of the flicks that the film's gloomy title character seems to review, this kind of anti-romantic comedy proves a mediocre brew.

| May 21, 2015

A film critic turned filmmaker seems intent on confirming negative stereotypes about critics... and that's before his movie gets truly unpleasantly smug.

| May 20, 2015

A former critic himself, Hernan Guerschuny couldn't have conveyed any more contempt for his past profession if he had spliced scenes from Birdman into his film.

| Original Score: C+ | May 18, 2015

Perhaps the irony of The Film Critic is that, while its protagonist seems desperately, vehemently against clich, the film itself waltzes into a forest of them almost with aplomb.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 15, 2015

A gentle wake-up call for reviewers who see themselves as movie gatekeepers rather than movie analysts.

| Original Score: 80 | May 15, 2015

"The Film Critic" is an extended spoof more than anything else (it may have worked better as a short film), and its targets are pretty shallow, but it still includes many entertaining and insightful elements.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 15, 2015

As in much recent South American art cinema, the depictions of working life are vivid and relatable, throwing the more fantastic ideas into sharp relief.

| May 14, 2015

"The Film Critic" is at once too clever by half and not as smart as it pretends to be.

| May 14, 2015

Not as lame as the theater critic set to eviscerate Michael Keaton's 'Birdman' hero before she sees his play, but it still cries out for some imagination, if not actual accuracy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2015

As the film's heart, the bearded, bearlike Spregelburd delivers a quiet, unemphatic performance, at its best when at its clumsiest and most stone-faced, magnificently tragic and hilarious for one brief, complex moment.

| May 14, 2015

Guerschuny never manages to make The Film Critic much more than mildly cute.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 13, 2015

The persistent references to cinema and film writing are self-awarely mimicking clichs but not subverting them.

| May 12, 2015

Imagine a film critic who smugly condemns movies that he calls "cliche-ridden" only to find that his own life is following the trajectories of the movies! Clever.

| Original Score: B | May 10, 2015

It perverts cinephilia by asserting that anyone who engages in criticism actually, deep down, wants to be a practicing artist.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 10, 2015