Williams sympathizes with his protagonists, though his film is too fluid and keen on catching the quirkiness of everyday speech and capturing languid moods to act as agitprop.

| Aug 8, 2018

There are two bravura shots in The Human Surge... Otherwise, well, it's tough going.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 11, 2017

Williams's bewildering, sinuous film encourages us to realise that getting lost is a destination in itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2017

There is something exasperating in the way it withholds the pleasures of film from its audience, allowing long stretches to unfold with no lighting and semi-audible dialogue.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 7, 2017

Though the picture is admirable on a conceptual level, its execution is incoherent, interminable and a colossal strain on the eyes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 3, 2017

Just when you think you've got the movie pegged, it pulls a daring switch of perspective. While the thrill of that little coup is short-lived, it suggests that Mr. Williams may come up with something more substantial with his next feature.

| Mar 2, 2017

A fill-in-the-blanks effort that goes out of its way to repel at every winding turn.

| Mar 1, 2017

This is a heckuva stimulating cinematic achievement for a relative newcomer. The Human Surge offers a shrewd commentary on the dissonance of technological connectivity and personal communication.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 28, 2017

Surreal and wordlessly unsettling, Eduardo Williams' globe-crossing feature The Human Surge is intimate and pleasurably inscrutable.

| Feb 28, 2017

The film's default state is an ambient inertia that gestures vaguely in multiple directions without concerning itself with the hard work of constructing an argument, a convincing milieu, or even a compelling mood.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 24, 2017

Lacking in narrative or character (the film is all theme and no story), the payoff moments for all one's carefully invested attention are few and far between.

| Feb 9, 2017

As an immersive, unpredictable sensory experience, on the other hand, this is a prodigious accomplishment from a filmmaker full of ideas about rhythm, texture, and scale.

| Jan 3, 2017