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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceA rigorous, agile, scathingly funny reckoning with a city and society in the last stages of decline.
- 88Slant MagazineSlant MagazineRobinson's very name ties him to explorers like Crusoe and Walden, but he is also something like JLG's whispering leftist prankster who butted into 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her to intermittently spout rhetoric over images of freeways and construction sites.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonKeiller's follow up to his cine-essays London and Robinson In Space is another intelligent, thought-provoking piece of filmmaking.
- 70VarietyLeslie FelperinVarietyLeslie FelperinAlthough rich in ideas and always compelling to look at, writer-helmer Patrick Keiller's latest semi-experimental pic Robinson in Ruins reps a minor disappointment after his outstanding, same-veined previous works, "London" and "Robinson in Space."
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichComparable works like John Gianvito's "Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind," or nearly anything from cine-essayist Chris Marker's oeuvre, mine similar territory much more rewardingly.
- An exaltation of life counters the intimations of extinction, trumping the polemical despair.