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Monrovia, Indiana
Directed by
Frederick Wiseman
Not Rated
2018
2h 23m
Documentary
7.0
85%
56%
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Following the 2016 presidential election, Frederick Wiseman's documentary dissects small-town America to understand how its values impact and influence the political landscape of the nation.
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Monrovia, Indiana Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
What I learned from Monrovia, Indiana is that I - personally - am bored by mattress shopping, City Council arguments over fire hydrants, and high school band concerts I am not obligated by shared DNA to attend.
Dare Daniel
Daniel Barnes
Not the meatiest Wiseman effort, but even minor Wiseman provides major cinematic nourishment for the soul.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Like all of Wiseman's films, "Monrovia, Indiana" possesses almost meditative power.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
As usual, Wiseman's scenes extend for long stretches, which can be an acquired taste for some viewers. Yet this time around, he ends his film with one of the most shattering sequences of his career...
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Given enough time, Wiseman would conceivably want to make documentaries about everything. That's amazing. What's even more amazing: If anyone could actually do it, it's Wiseman
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Robert Daniels
There's a natural drama in life, an organic meditation in the preparation of ground beef or the cutting of pork chops, the sharpening of a knife. They're the tiny bits of life that Wiseman's film clings to.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The result is surprisingly companionable and enjoyable, an unhurried look at a location that is in no kind of rush, a place that is concerned most of all with preserving the way it's always been.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
These are lovely images, but they leave a disturbing aftertaste. The final take away from Monrovia, Indiana, is that the town is a great place to be an inanimate object.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his camera on a pro-gun, pro-God Midwestern town and gives us a landmark view of what it looks like to live in Trump's America.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
Wiseman's portrait reveals emptiness that's subtle and unforced but becomes devastating.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
A calmly analytical film in which-as ever in Wiseman's work-extended discussions and public debates are developed with an absorbing dramatic power.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The pace is slow over the course of 143 minutes, sometimes maddeningly so, even for a Wiseman documentary, but the film rewards patience.
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
Wiseman once again reveals his enduring inquisitiveness without being an inquisitor. There's no easily discernible - or dismissible - agenda or narrative, just curiosity, observation and discovery.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The unavoidable political implications of "Monrovia, Indiana" give its observations an undeniable urgency.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Wiseman has made the same documentary that he always makes (in his geographical mode), employing the same methods. Whether those methods serve him or his viewers well, in this case, is the crucial question.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
Few filmmakers can turn a mundane town council meeting about a library bench into a meditation on patriotism and civic responsibility the way Wiseman can.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
As always with Frederick Wiseman, it's the quotidian gestures that haunt one in Monrovia, Indiana.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Regardless of the movie's elusive agenda, Monrovia, Indiana is an immersive wonder, thanks to Wiseman's masterful ability to assemble images that lead from one painterly visual to the next.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Pleasurably low-key if not among his most invaluable recent works, Frederick Wiseman's latest American opus takes a long, slow look at a rural red-state town.
The Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
Wiseman in a minor key.
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