Metacritic Movie Ratings
In the Pit Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 83

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa 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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• 80

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla 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

  VarietyRobert Koehler

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

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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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• 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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