87
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesBeandrea JulyThe New York TimesBeandrea JulyA work that possesses both the whimsy and fearlessness of a student project and the technical vibrancy of a veteran’s opus.
- 90The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyThe directors, Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes, rely on some tricky devices to tell the story of this film shoot—but those tricks, far from undercutting the emotional drama, intensify it. The result is the most accomplished and absorbing film about time spent in lockdown that I’ve seen.
- 90Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangThis is a lyrical ode to the glories of summer and the collaborative joys of filmmaking, suffused with the hope that we will never be deprived of either for long.
- 83The PlaylistMark AschThe PlaylistMark AschThe Tsugua Diaries has something of a chiasmus structure, with each half of the movie, each layer of reality, and each direction of time doubling back on and rhyming with itself.
- 80VarietyGuy LodgeVarietyGuy LodgeWhether wholly performed or partially authentic, The Tsugua Diaries wittily evokes the volatile mood swings of lockdown — how concentrated time with the same people can yield either irritation or intensified closeness from day to day, particularly in a sticky-hot summer haze.
- 75Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownThe Tsugua Diaries is something like Memento for an age of isolation and listlessness.