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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The Film StageLeonardo GoiThe Film StageLeonardo GoiZhu Shengze’s poignant Present.Perfect. follows a dozen anchors over a period of ten months. It distills some 800 hours of live footage into a 124-minute documentary–a black-and-white collage stirring questions that far transcend the country and the zeitgeist it captures.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungPunctuated with moments of illumination, humor and even occasional visual flair —the opening shot executes a stately 360-degree cityscape pan from a high crane — Present. Perfect manages to retain interest despite a certain repetitiveness and some patience-taxing longueurs.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis is a film in touch with modernity, but I wonder if the livestreamers were quite as apolitical as this film makes them appear. And I was unsure about Zhu’s decision to correct all the images from colour to black-and-white, an arthouse-ification that the film didn’t need.