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Tape's palpable energy and honorable intentions are often undermined by uneven filmmaking, but it remains an intriguing, rage-fueled rallying cry. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

An aspiring actress encounters the darker side of the entertainment industry when she goes in for a screen test.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Deborah Kampmeier
Producer:

Deborah Kampmeier, Annarosa Mudd, Veronica Nickel
Writer:

Deborah Kampmeier
Release Date (Streaming):

Jun 16, 2020
Runtime:

1h 38m

Cast & Crew

Isabelle Fuhrman
Pearl

Tarek Bishara
Lux

Annarosa Mudd
Rosa

Lollie Jensen
Lauren

Allison Winn
Lizbeth

Kana Hatakeyama
Daisy

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Critic Reviews for Tape

All Critics (23) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (9)

It becomes heavy and clumsy, and I was brokenhearted about it because there's a bleeding, raw anger to this film.

March 28, 2020 | Full Review…

Amy Nicholson
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
"Tape" will inspire conversations - its woefully conceived final sequence literally begs for them - but perhaps not the ones Kampmeier anticipated when crafting a film that, for all its missteps, is built on necessary storytelling.

March 27, 2020 | Rating: C | Full Review…

Kate Erbland
indieWire
While "Tape" is admirable in its aims to frankly explore what happens behind closed doors, it's less laudable in its execution.

March 27, 2020 | Full Review…

Kimber Myers
Los Angeles Times
Tape isn't just a movie. It is a rallying cry.

March 26, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Matt Fagerholm
RogerEbert.com
Even as the film feels up-to-the-minute, it's been made with a certain threadbare, streets-of-New-York punk feminist mythologizing that may remind you, at times, of the films of Beth B.

March 26, 2020 | Full Review…

Owen Gleiberman
Variety
"Tape," in short, is a terrible movie about appalling behavior.

March 26, 2020 | Full Review…

Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
Tape wants desperately to become a classic film for the #MeToo era, but the movie's dumb ending means that Tape won't even register as a footnote.

July 15, 2020 | Full Review…

Carla Hay
Culture Mix
Ultimately, the film is most effective as a warning due to the ordinariness of what it depicts.

June 29, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film
The fact that every moment is coated with a thick smear of pretentiousness - from the tacky, 1990's trip-hop soundtrack to the permeating, suffocating sermonizing / finger-wagging - is perhaps most insufferable.

June 25, 2020 | Rating: 3/10 | Full Review…

Alex Saveliev
Film Threat
While watching your first instinct is to think this story is unbelievable. Then you remember it is based on a true story. Stories like this happen all the time.

April 13, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Carey-Ann Pawsey
Orca Sound
Leaving aside the sloppy filmmaking, the premise is misguided to its rotten core. Bad faith detractors could use this film to undermine a movement that deserves better.

April 10, 2020 | Rating: 1/10 | Full Review…

Alan Zilberman
Brightest Young Things
With Tape, Kampmeier takes her dominant themes, namely, women's pain and the connection of speaking our truth to healing that pain, and attacks them from a new, more objective angle.

April 10, 2020 | Full Review…

Jax Griffin
Film Inquiry