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Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweWith filmmaking roots in horror and other genre fare, Taylor invokes some interesting cinematic choices but sometimes seems to be uneasily straddling the line between serious, intense drama and outright exploitation.
- Supremacy is so grueling an ordeal that its revelations barely penetrate the murk.
- 30Village VoiceSam WeisbergVillage VoiceSam Weisberg[A] dour, dreary drama.
- 30The DissolveChris KlimekThe DissolveChris KlimekSupremacy is a well-acted, abysmally written, deeply unpleasant exercise that pays no dividends of insight (or heaven forfend, amusement) for the chore of enduring its endless racial epithets and handheld shots of gun barrels in faces.
- 30The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisFeeding over-the-top language to underdeveloped characters, Deon Taylor’s Supremacy dramatizes racism with an unvarying intensity that quickly becomes wearing.
- 25Slant MagazineDrew HuntSlant MagazineDrew HuntThe characters shout themselves hoarse, but they don't really say anything, and it isn't long before we feel like hostages ourselves, bound by the filmmakers' strained moral outrage.