This collection of interactions with ordinary people is a cinematic gift both simple and multilayered, an intellectual challenge and an emotional adventure.
Story’s an original, and the film is a revelation — a movie that’s as deep as we’re willing to read into it, and an invaluable time capsule for summers far in our future, assuming we ever get there.
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Slant MagazineChristopher Gray
Slant MagazineChristopher Gray
The documentary represents a city ground down by inequality and division, where millions of selves who have by and large given up on one another.
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The A.V. ClubIgnatiy Vishnevetsky
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy Vishnevetsky
While it never feels completely defeatist, her film offers scattered snapshots of an uncertain society in its dog days.