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Digging for Fire finds director/co-writer Joe Swanberg working from a familiar palette, but in ways that suggest he's taking new and exciting strides as a filmmaker.
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The movie has been dedicated to Paul Mazursky, the great radiologist of American social interplay who died last year. But Swanberg is still murmuring where Mazursky could speechify, gesticulate, and shout, sometimes in the same sequence. Sep 11, 2015 | Full Review…
The movie has been dedicated to Paul Mazursky, the great radiologist of American social interplay who died last year. But Swanberg is still murmuring where Mazursky could speechify, gesticulate, and shout, sometimes in the same sequence.
Wesley Morris
Conversations drift and weave, as do the people having them. Narcissistic melancholy dukes it out with beer-and-pot-stoked merriment. There is longing. There is foolhardiness. Aug 27, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Conversations drift and weave, as do the people having them. Narcissistic melancholy dukes it out with beer-and-pot-stoked merriment. There is longing. There is foolhardiness.
Steven Rea
While you're watching it, "Digging for Fire" may feel slight or tentative, but its cumulative impact is entrancing. Few films about a marital rift make so much of what seems so little. Aug 27, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
While you're watching it, "Digging for Fire" may feel slight or tentative, but its cumulative impact is entrancing. Few films about a marital rift make so much of what seems so little.
John Hartl
While it has its charms, Swanberg is tilling soil here that has been churned since humanity began, and he doesn't come up with very much that's new. Aug 27, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
While it has its charms, Swanberg is tilling soil here that has been churned since humanity began, and he doesn't come up with very much that's new.
Ty Burr
"Digging for Fire" is a pleasant escape - an attractively shot, gracefully edited and, finally, emotionally satisfying mystery about the nature of marriage itself. Aug 27, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
"Digging for Fire" is a pleasant escape - an attractively shot, gracefully edited and, finally, emotionally satisfying mystery about the nature of marriage itself.
Ann Hornaday
Unfortunately, for as much dialogue as "Digging for Fire" has, the film doesn't go into much depth about Tim and Lee's true feelings about marriage and their lives. Aug 27, 2015 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Unfortunately, for as much dialogue as "Digging for Fire" has, the film doesn't go into much depth about Tim and Lee's true feelings about marriage and their lives.
G. Allen Johnson
Simple but affecting, deep without becoming preachy, and dancing on the line between comedy and drama. Jul 26, 2019 | Full Review…
Simple but affecting, deep without becoming preachy, and dancing on the line between comedy and drama.
Josh Long
What makes Digging for Fire such an enjoyable yet fleeting experience is how Swanberg lets these ideas flow organically into the film through his terrific cast and tight editing. Jun 3, 2019 | Rating: 7.5/10 | Full Review…
What makes Digging for Fire such an enjoyable yet fleeting experience is how Swanberg lets these ideas flow organically into the film through his terrific cast and tight editing.
C.J. Prince
DIGGING FOR FIRE is the tight, often funny and loosely scripted film that relies on the choices of the actors living in the moment Dec 9, 2018 | Rating: B | Full Review…
DIGGING FOR FIRE is the tight, often funny and loosely scripted film that relies on the choices of the actors living in the moment
James Clay
Digging for Fire is not revolutionary, or even revelatory, but it captures some things that are hard to express, and it did so with a terrific cast. Aug 23, 2018 | Full Review…
Digging for Fire is not revolutionary, or even revelatory, but it captures some things that are hard to express, and it did so with a terrific cast.
Asia Frey
Digging for Fire has an absolutely loaded cast full of recognizable names, but does nothing with them; Dec 2, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Digging for Fire has an absolutely loaded cast full of recognizable names, but does nothing with them;
Robert Kojder
The actors are fine, but the end result feels undercooked, largely because of all the detours and subplots. It's like a miniseries writ small. Aug 21, 2017 | Full Review…
The actors are fine, but the end result feels undercooked, largely because of all the detours and subplots. It's like a miniseries writ small.
Kathy Fennessy
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