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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangThe intellectual take on the pandemic here is oblique. Still, the mood feels extraordinarily direct, like speaking on a telephone to a version of yourself from maybe half a year ago in lockdown number two or three, before there were vaccines and hope, when the winter nights were long and dawn seemed very far away.
- 75The Film StageEthan VestbyThe Film StageEthan VestbyAt barely feature-length it’s somewhat a wisp of a film, but to good ends, as if the crazed artist at its helm isn’t even totally stopping to think, and like one of his greatest works, New Rose Hotel, channeling the fury of his early art into a different form of aggression.
- 70The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisUtterly baffling, yet never less than intriguing, Zeros and Ones lingers in the mind. Even after you think you’ve brushed it off, its chilly tendrils continue to cling.
- 70TheWrapCarlos AguilarTheWrapCarlos AguilarIndecipherable to a fault but in the end surprisingly hopeful, Zeros and Ones feels like diving into a murky river to search for a missing object, fully aware one might never find it but still willing to get wet in its slush for the sake of trying.
- 70Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganPaste MagazineNatalia KeoganBolstered by a sharply competent central performance as well as darkly intoxicating shots of an ancient city, Zeros and Ones is an act of artistic abstraction that is mostly rewarding in its ambiguity.
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichZeros and Ones isn’t much of an entertaining sit — watching it feels like dusting off a cryptic artifact from a bygone civilization, its pleasures more archaeological than anything else — but every frame of this weird soup is suffused with the restless creative spirit of someone who’s been waiting for a new world order, and recognizes that we only get so many chances to make it happen.
- 67The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyWhat Zeros And Ones conveys, in its shoestring terms, is the actual mood of a world of uncertainties.
- 60VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergWhat Zeros and Ones does do — deliberately, calculatedly, in the kind of messy intuitive manner that’s been the director’s signature of late — is reproduce the general state of unease and insecurity that’s plagued most of us during lockdown.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonThe scrambled narrative, listless pace, clumsy stabs at profundity and severe lack of humor will limit the film’s appeal to existing converts and cult movie connoisseurs.
- 38Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenZeros and Ones is the unwelcome spectacle of a bad boy attempting to apologize for his badness.