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Darkly funny and impressively ambitious, Chained for Life is as unpredictable as it is original.
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Release date: Sep 11, 2019
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A meaningful, moving, and often quite funny interrogation of beauty in the movies. Sep 11, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A meaningful, moving, and often quite funny interrogation of beauty in the movies.
Sheila O'Malley
Schimberg's film is odd, darkly funny and - when it means to be - a little frightening. Sep 10, 2019 | Full Review…
Schimberg's film is odd, darkly funny and - when it means to be - a little frightening.
Ben Kenigsberg
Deeply weird without being difficult to follow, Chained also bears traces of David Lynch's The Elephant Man in its DNA - influences that guide Schimberg in a direction that's difficult to predict but fun to follow. Sep 10, 2019 | Full Review…
Deeply weird without being difficult to follow, Chained also bears traces of David Lynch's The Elephant Man in its DNA - influences that guide Schimberg in a direction that's difficult to predict but fun to follow.
Michael Nordine
At times Schimberg's gambits feel too coy, their aim too dry despite the sensational hooks. But more often than not, the immediate impact is engagingly droll, and there's no questioning the overall adventurousness, confidence and originality. Jul 27, 2018 | Full Review…
At times Schimberg's gambits feel too coy, their aim too dry despite the sensational hooks. But more often than not, the immediate impact is engagingly droll, and there's no questioning the overall adventurousness, confidence and originality.
Dennis Harvey
The script's showbiz satire shows occasional flashes of savage brilliance, and the meta aspects are thoughtfully composed, if occasionally self-indulgent. Jul 24, 2018 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The script's showbiz satire shows occasional flashes of savage brilliance, and the meta aspects are thoughtfully composed, if occasionally self-indulgent.
Katie Rife
Chained for Life expands on the idea of difference as a humanizing catalyst, and cinema is its playground. Jun 28, 2018 | Full Review…
Chained for Life expands on the idea of difference as a humanizing catalyst, and cinema is its playground.
Keith Uhlich
What's so curious about Chained for Life, and its effortlessness in gliding from the real to the surreal, is how easy it is for its cast of differently-abled actors to seize the camera and its gaze. Sep 16, 2019 | Rating: 7.5/10 | Full Review…
What's so curious about Chained for Life, and its effortlessness in gliding from the real to the surreal, is how easy it is for its cast of differently-abled actors to seize the camera and its gaze.
Kyle Turner
... blurs fantasy and reality to an almost disorienting degree. But it also finds a dark sense of humor while turning cynicism into compassion. Sep 13, 2019 | Full Review…
... blurs fantasy and reality to an almost disorienting degree. But it also finds a dark sense of humor while turning cynicism into compassion.
Todd Jorgenson
Brilliant deconstruction of Todd Browning's "Freaks". Sep 11, 2019 | Full Review…
Brilliant deconstruction of Todd Browning's "Freaks".
Louis Proyect
Aaron Schimberg's howlingly funny and deeply affecting second feature considers the ethical tightrope of transforming flesh-and-blood human beings into fodder for cinema. Sep 11, 2019 | Full Review…
Aaron Schimberg's howlingly funny and deeply affecting second feature considers the ethical tightrope of transforming flesh-and-blood human beings into fodder for cinema.
Patrick Dahl
The performances in general are incisive, with the insecure Weixler playing deftly off the witty Pearson, who carries himself in a way that makes the case for disabled actors playing disabled characters all by itself. Aug 21, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The performances in general are incisive, with the insecure Weixler playing deftly off the witty Pearson, who carries himself in a way that makes the case for disabled actors playing disabled characters all by itself.
Rob Gonsalves
An instant cult film, one that demands repeated viewing. Aug 15, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An instant cult film, one that demands repeated viewing.
Roger Moore
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