77
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonThe New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonIts connective tissue is an idea, an exploration, and it’s designed to be more absorbed than understood. But for the patient audience, it’s richly illuminating.
- 83IndieWireSusannah GruderIndieWireSusannah GruderThe Tuba Thieves is about embracing uncertainty and misunderstanding — something d/Deaf/hard-of-hearing people do every day. In fact, the film’s entire genesis was intended as a large-scale “game of telephone,” deliberately seeking out disorder and unexpected end products.
- 63LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenLarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenThe Tuba Thieves doesn’t quite have the mastery of the collage form you’ll find in somewhat similar experiments like Leviathan or Cameraperson, so that some of its ideas and images can feel scattershot, yet it undeniably subverts the tools of cinema in a uniquely compelling way.
- 42The PlaylistBrian FarvourThe PlaylistBrian FarvourThe effort deserves a nod, but the execution stumbles, falls, and, whether intentional or not, can’t be saved.