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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Slant MagazineWes GreeneSlant MagazineWes GreeneThe film’s triumph is keeping us on our toes by sending us into an ether where fear and wonder live hand in hand.
- 80Directed by Natalia Almada and scored by the Kronos Quartet, the film feels a little symphonic, a mesmerizing exploration of how technology is transforming the ways we relate to the natural world.
- 63RogerEbert.comChristy LemireRogerEbert.comChristy LemireBecause Users is so captivating from a technical perspective, it’s frustrating to discover how scattered it is narratively.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinPoetic, painterly work Users looks and sounds stunning, but remains thematically a little too diffuse for its own good as it meditates on our children and the future they will inhabit, where perfect machines replace imperfect parents.
- 60The New York TimesDevika GirishThe New York TimesDevika GirishThis negotiation between techno-pessimism and techno-fetishism is at the heart of Users, though Almada’s scattered movie struggles to keep them in balance; her broad, rhetorical voice-over is a poor match for the complexity of the film’s images.
- 50VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangIn her voiceover, Almada, who has made one fiction feature but mostly works in documentary form, shuffles through half-formed ideas too randomly to gather these scattered wonders into an identifiable thesis.
- 50The PlaylistJonathan ChristianThe PlaylistJonathan ChristianUsers is too quiet to say anything provocative, too short to waste your time and too inconsequential to recommend to anyone searching for a fresh perspective on age-old material.