The Tsugua Diaries

critic Reviews

, 78% Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Justin ChangLos Angeles Times
    This 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.
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    Beandrea JulyNew York Times
    A work that possesses both the whimsy and fearlessness of a student project and the technical vibrancy of a veteran’s opus.
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    Pat BrownSlant Magazine
    The Tsugua Diaries is something like Memento for an age of isolation and listlessness.
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    Richard BrodyNew Yorker
    The actors’ frayed nerves and hard-won affections—and their cinematic results—reveal their roots in the steadfast artistic purpose and the scary uncertainty of the circumstances that bring them together.
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    Melissa Anderson4Columns
    A work of quarantine ingenuity, The Tsugua Diaries is a late-summer idyll that both acknowledges the grim circumstances that shaped its making and incorporates discord without ever faltering from its low-key ebullience.
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    Keith Uhlich(All (Parentheses))
    The kind of irritating movie-about-moviemaking comprised more of artistic referents than lived experience.
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    Nuha HassanNuha Hassan
    The Tusgua Diaries blurs the lines between fiction and documentary, and it is something wonderful that most viewers would have never seen before.
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    Robin CliffordReeling Reviews
    I found “The Tsugua Diaries” to be a technically interesting filmmaking concept but that same concept kept me at arm’s length and not embracing it. It is interesting, though.
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    Laura CliffordReeling Reviews
    charming and playful while also exploring the dynamics of collaborative filmmaking and the often magical effect of following whims.
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    Tom O'BrienNext Best Picture
    If you're going to go to all the trouble of telling your story this way, at least give your leads more discernible character arcs so they can be seen changing or at least learning something along the way.
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