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In the Pit Review

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5.0

Dave White Profile

… kind of beautiful … Read full review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    61

    out of 100

    Metascore®
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  • 30

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    Equally as perplexing as its lack of perspective is the film's overall shortage of information.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    In the Pit's empathy feels strictly skin-deep, its insight even shallower.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times Manohla Dargis

    With In the Pit [Rulfo] isn't advancing any totalizing theory, a treatise on transportation or an argument about alienation; he is, rather simply and elegantly, revealing the secret human face of a seemingly inhuman world.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety Robert Koehler

    Leo Heiblum's pulsating music and Samuel Larson's dense, fascinating sound editing rewardingly compliment Rulfo's electrifying visuals.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The soft-spoken, impressionistic documentary (with a hypnotic score built from the sounds of construction) climaxes with a six-minute helicopter-cam view of the colossal structure to which these somebodies have been dedicating their sweat, and sometimes their very lives.

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