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Director Bujalski continues to give cinematic voice to awkward, literate twentysomethings with noteworthy smarts and tenderness.
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Bujalski perfectly skewers what you might call the "sort-of" generation: educated, mid-20s white Americans hemmed in by their own non-committal uncertainty. May 4, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Bujalski perfectly skewers what you might call the "sort-of" generation: educated, mid-20s white Americans hemmed in by their own non-committal uncertainty.
Steve Rose
Despite their lackadaisical impression, the pictures are quite tightly structured: each scene covers emotional and narrative distance. Funny, forgiving, credible and deft, they offer much to appreciate. May 3, 2007 | Full Review…
Despite their lackadaisical impression, the pictures are quite tightly structured: each scene covers emotional and narrative distance. Funny, forgiving, credible and deft, they offer much to appreciate.
Ben Walters
Just because it's like real life doesn't mean it's inherently interesting. Dec 8, 2006 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Just because it's like real life doesn't mean it's inherently interesting.
Ted Fry
Alan, Lawrence and Ellie, intersecting here and there with a circle of acquaintances and strangers, insinuate themselves into the viewer's heart like good friends. Nov 24, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4
Alan, Lawrence and Ellie, intersecting here and there with a circle of acquaintances and strangers, insinuate themselves into the viewer's heart like good friends.
Steven Rea
Shooting in black-and-white 16mm, Bujalski nods to the pre-Sundance personal cinema of the '50s and '60s. His little circle of pals, though, offers little to outsiders looking in. Nov 10, 2006 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Shooting in black-and-white 16mm, Bujalski nods to the pre-Sundance personal cinema of the '50s and '60s. His little circle of pals, though, offers little to outsiders looking in.
Bill Stamets
The film's mood and style are pitched somewhere between '60s American indie and French New Wave and, as you watch these people, they seem painfully, amusingly on-target. Nov 9, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4
The film's mood and style are pitched somewhere between '60s American indie and French New Wave and, as you watch these people, they seem painfully, amusingly on-target.
Michael Wilmington
Mutual Appreciation is a crappy-looking film in a tame, undistinctive, messy black-and-white way. Oct 25, 2018 | Full Review…
Mutual Appreciation is a crappy-looking film in a tame, undistinctive, messy black-and-white way.
Eileen Jones
I bet Andrew Bujalski is sick of reading that he's the voice of his generation, when most of that neo-slacker demographic has never had the opportunity to see his films. Mar 20, 2018 | Full Review…
I bet Andrew Bujalski is sick of reading that he's the voice of his generation, when most of that neo-slacker demographic has never had the opportunity to see his films.
Amy Taubin
If much of what I dislike in Bujalski's filmmaking must be accounted for by my objection to the milieu his films travel in, this shouldn't suggest that the filmmaking itself is anything close to competent. Aug 24, 2017 | Full Review…
If much of what I dislike in Bujalski's filmmaking must be accounted for by my objection to the milieu his films travel in, this shouldn't suggest that the filmmaking itself is anything close to competent.
Nick Pinkerton
You'll either be bored or fascinated by the Cassavetes-like reality of it all. May 4, 2007 | Rating: 2/5
You'll either be bored or fascinated by the Cassavetes-like reality of it all.
Derek Malcolm
The grainy, black-and-white look and the characters' ethos dovetail perfectly. May 4, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The grainy, black-and-white look and the characters' ethos dovetail perfectly.
The focus is narrow, but its scrutiny is absolutely unerring. May 4, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The focus is narrow, but its scrutiny is absolutely unerring.
Tom Charity
Painfully film school project about narcissistic artists dong nothing in particular.
Super Reviewer
[font=Century Gothic]In "Mutual Appreciation," Alan(Justin Rice) has just moved to New York from Boston after the breakup of his band, the Bumblebees. Once there, he looks up an old friend, Lawrence(Andrew Bujalski, who also wrote, directed and edited), who lives with his girlfriend, Ellie(Rachel Clift). Needing a guitarist for an upcoming gig, Alan finds one through a frisky DJ, Sara(Seung-Min Lee).[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Mutual Appreciation" is about the awkwardness of youth where anything is possible and full responsibility has not yet kicked in. The movie is slightly agreeable before falling into a familiar trap late. And while I encourage low budget independent filmmaking, there should still be a certain level of storytelling skills and convincing performances which are not the case here.[/font]
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