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The Worst Ones

Les pires

2022

Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret

Johan Heldenbergh, Matthias Jacquin, Loïc Pech, Mallory Wanecques ...

6.9

73

Drama. Comedy A group of teenagers street cast in their neighborhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer.

	Author	Review
United States	Christian Gallichio The Film Stage	"'Les pires' is more content bringing up issues of consent and artistic license without presenting a cogent philosophy, humanizing everyone, for better and worse"	NEU
United States	Lisa Kennedy The New York Times	"A provocative critique of filmmaking practices. It also presents a subtle defense of the onscreen miracles revealed by the young and the raw"	POS
United States	Katie Rife rogerebert.com	"'The Worst Ones' stays true to itself (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"It’s a premise that could have generated a coruscating satire (...) It could also, perhaps at the same time, have become an edgy drama (...) But Akoka and Gueret’s script fails to commit itself"	NEU
United States	Clayton Dillard Slant	"As a film primarily of questions, suggestions, and possibilities rather than answers, the ending is less a fault than a finger on the pulse of its own uncertain moment (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Conscientious and self-effacing, 'The Worst Ones' doesn’t entirely absolve itself of similar charges, though it does find artistry and honor where others tend not to look"	NEU
United States	Anna Smith Deadline	"Thought-provoking and sometimes darkly funny"	POS
United States	Dmitry Samarov Chicago Reader	"Every movie is a documentary record of a group of people at a particular time and place. Whether staged, scripted, or improvised, it becomes a unique record"	POS
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"A very successful first feature for Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret who, with great heart, truth and skill"	POS

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