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08/29/02
Metropolitan (1990)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:22
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A chronicle of the social scene of a group of young Park Avenue socialites and their vanishing debutante scene. Into thier midst comes an outsider, a radical from the socially alien west side. ... [More]
Starring: Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Carolyn Farina, Isabel Gillies
Director: Whit Stillman
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Reviews for Metropolitan
A witty, urbane portrait of Manhattan's debutante scene.
07/18/08
As low-budget as the film looks, Stillman overcomes financial limitations by providing a learned script and eliciting polished performances.
07/18/08
Whit Stillman's crafty independent feature about wealthy Park Avenue teenagers and a middle-class boy who joins their ranks over one Christmas vacation is certainly well imagined, and impressively acted by a cast of newcomers.
07/18/08
Top CriticNot very much happens in Metropolitan, and yet everything that happens is felt deeply, because the characters in this movie are still too young to have perfected their defenses against life.
01/01/00
Top CriticOn a technical level, this is an amazingly slick film. Stillman knows how to, as they say, put every dollar on the screen. And on balance, he's certainly a filmmaker to watch for in the future.
01/01/00
Stillman's film depends on strong dialogue and language, his humor is submerged in the text and is played deadpan by his actors; no wonder some critics have compared him to the Gallic Eric Rohmer
12/27/06
Unusual subject matter handled with competent self-assurance.
07/18/08
...Stillman's vision and words last as memory, as a look back at a more innocent time, as a thought stretched luxuriously into sarcasm, some cynicism, and many simple and sublime moments.
02/11/06
has the humor, warmth, and satirical edge to make it a tragically forgotten classic
11/12/05
It's the beautifully chiselled dialogue -- counterpointed by near-static camerawork and a nicely mannered acting style -- that remains the chief attraction.
07/18/08
Stillman films, with their acerbic humor, are perhaps best on the second and third viewing. With their rapid-fire approach and their subtle dialog, it is easy to miss many of the lines the first time around.
01/01/00
Metropolitan is not for everyone; but that is not a mark of shame or condemnation.
11/12/01
One of the few films that successfully makes the East Coast upper class sympathetic. Stillman is current cinema's one true wit.
08/30/02
It's wearing surprisingly well, yet is touchingly dated.
07/18/08
This film's fine point is not so much the plot as its view of this young aristocracy and the often funny and always engrossing dialogue.
01/01/00
Talky and pretentious, saved only by Eigeman's dry wit.
03/18/03
No review available.
09/29/04
None of Stillman’s endearing characters quite fits their prescribed social context, and in its exhilarated final movement, Metropolitan finds an exit out of the stifling UHB salon.
06/24/06
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