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The Human Surge is bravely idiosyncratic, although its more inscrutable elements may prove distancing for some viewers.
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There are two bravura shots in The Human Surge... Otherwise, well, it's tough going. July 11, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
There are two bravura shots in The Human Surge... Otherwise, well, it's tough going.
Kevin Maher
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. July 7, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Peter Bradshaw
Though the picture is admirable on a conceptual level, its execution is incoherent, interminable and a colossal strain on the eyes. March 3, 2017 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Though the picture is admirable on a conceptual level, its execution is incoherent, interminable and a colossal strain on the eyes.
Matt Fagerholm
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. March 2, 2017 | Full Review…
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.
Glenn Kenny
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. February 28, 2017 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
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.
Eric Kohn
Surreal and wordlessly unsettling, Eduardo Williams' globe-crossing feature The Human Surge is intimate and pleasurably inscrutable. February 28, 2017 | Full Review…
Surreal and wordlessly unsettling, Eduardo Williams' globe-crossing feature The Human Surge is intimate and pleasurably inscrutable.
Diana Clarke
William's perspective itself could be enough to stimulate the audience, but his camera and composition add an impressive cinematographic vocabulary to it. [Full Review in Spanish] May 23, 2019 | Full Review…
William's perspective itself could be enough to stimulate the audience, but his camera and composition add an impressive cinematographic vocabulary to it. [Full Review in Spanish]
Alonso Díaz de la Vega
The Human Surge was difficult to engage with; the handheld camera work is shaky and unfocused, the POV ventures into naturally (read poorly) lit spaces and Williams completely refuses to construct seamless linear progression... January 24, 2019 | Full Review…
The Human Surge was difficult to engage with; the handheld camera work is shaky and unfocused, the POV ventures into naturally (read poorly) lit spaces and Williams completely refuses to construct seamless linear progression...
Tara Judah
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. August 8, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Ela Bittencourt
This is post-Costa cinema, slow but chopped to average feature length, puzzling, engrossing, and alienating. April 26, 2018 | Full Review…
This is post-Costa cinema, slow but chopped to average feature length, puzzling, engrossing, and alienating.
A.S. Hamrah
In Williams' film, this pulse of energy is everywhere, running through and between all of the subjects: human, animal, material, ambient, and machinic. November 10, 2017 | Full Review…
In Williams' film, this pulse of energy is everywhere, running through and between all of the subjects: human, animal, material, ambient, and machinic.
Leo Goldsmith
Williams's bewildering, sinuous film encourages us to realise that getting lost is a destination in itself. July 9, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Williams's bewildering, sinuous film encourages us to realise that getting lost is a destination in itself.
Wendy Ide
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