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Darkly funny and impressively ambitious, Chained for Life is as unpredictable as it is original.
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A sharp movie about moviemaking, with welcome surreal touches that are best left unspoiled. October 24, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A sharp movie about moviemaking, with welcome surreal touches that are best left unspoiled.
Josh Slater-Williams
This low-budget film written and directed by Aaron Schimberg is almost every kind of strange, and yet it has an amiable warmth and an inexhaustible reserve of originality that make it compelling as hell. October 24, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This low-budget film written and directed by Aaron Schimberg is almost every kind of strange, and yet it has an amiable warmth and an inexhaustible reserve of originality that make it compelling as hell.
Leslie Felperin
Anchored by Weixler's and Pearson's natural charm, "Chained for Life" stands up as both a quiet ode to the experimental, dreamlike spirit of moviemaking and a seriocomic corrective to sentimentalized sideshow portrayals. October 18, 2019 | Full Review…
Anchored by Weixler's and Pearson's natural charm, "Chained for Life" stands up as both a quiet ode to the experimental, dreamlike spirit of moviemaking and a seriocomic corrective to sentimentalized sideshow portrayals.
Robert Abele
A meaningful, moving, and often quite funny interrogation of beauty in the movies. September 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. September 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. September 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
Although this film raised some very important topics, it continued on its journey as a self-reflexive movie within a movie. Independently, this is an interesting risk to take... February 23, 2020 | Full Review…
Although this film raised some very important topics, it continued on its journey as a self-reflexive movie within a movie. Independently, this is an interesting risk to take...
Allie Loukas
He's crafted something wholly unique as it navigates the serious and meaningful as deftly as it does the darkly funny and creepy. December 20, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
He's crafted something wholly unique as it navigates the serious and meaningful as deftly as it does the darkly funny and creepy.
Lisa Trifone
For all its laudable ambition, however, it eventually becomes a bit bogged down in its own meta-ingenuity. November 11, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
For all its laudable ambition, however, it eventually becomes a bit bogged down in its own meta-ingenuity.
David Parkinson
Chained for Life is particularly interested in performance as it relates to people with disabilities, films about them and the able-bodied that play them. November 6, 2019 | Full Review…
Chained for Life is particularly interested in performance as it relates to people with disabilities, films about them and the able-bodied that play them.
Shawn Glinis
[A] wonky, charming satire... October 27, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
[A] wonky, charming satire...
Simran Hans
As the male and female leads, Adam Pearson, so good in Under the Skin, and Weixler are fearless, particularly in an intimate love scene between them, their previous conversation about it saying much about what we as viewers are feeling. October 25, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
As the male and female leads, Adam Pearson, so good in Under the Skin, and Weixler are fearless, particularly in an intimate love scene between them, their previous conversation about it saying much about what we as viewers are feeling.
Robert Martin
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