Radiant City (2006)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:15
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.9/10
Theatrical Release:May 30, 2007 Limited
Director: Gary Burns
Reviews for Radiant City
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A sardonic look at suburban sprawl in Calgary. With its wry surrealistic touches, this is a movie that makes you smile while it makes you think. Highly recommended Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
a very well crafted and easy to watch movie Full Review |
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3/4 |
Author James Howard Kunstler says the suburban landscape is "brutal" and "soul-draining," and it's hard to argue when the filmmakers show him sitting in a bike path "rest area," a little bench behind a chain-link fence with a view of the freeway. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Irrefutable evidence that post modern suburbia is an unmitigated disaster which can't deliver on its seductive promise to deliver the good life to refugees from the big city. Full Review |
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3/4 |
[A] sublimely slippery, slightly surreal and not entirely 'just the facts, ma'am' documentary. Full Review |
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The faux-documentary aspect of Radiant City is a huge gamble that doesn't pay off. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Suburban sprawl takes a well-deserved hit in Radiant City, a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Gary Burns and journalist Jim Brown. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Blending documentary elements and some dramatic material, Radiant City is an acerbic position paper on the cultural damage done by postwar architectural fads.
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[An] enlightening and disturbingly funny critique of North American suburban sprawl. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Radiant City is a movie about communities that offer everything prospective citizens might want or need, save this: a human reason to live there. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
It acknowledges the lure of urban sprawl is as every bit as phony yet intoxicating as the tug of cinema itself. Full Review |
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Gary Burns' latest vision of dystopia is an edgy look at exurbia, this time with a documaker's eye. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Although this National Film Board-produced film is promoted as a documentary, it's really a combination of essay and drama about that favourite bugbear, suburbia. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
The pundits bring their considerable expertise to bear on out-of-control development that’s on a reckless course of urban/ suburban destruction. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Radiant City is a fascinating 'thoughtumentary' Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
...successful as both a documentary on the suburbs and an intimate look at the ups and downs of an admittedly quirky nuclear family. Full Review |
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