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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 01 Nov 2018

It seems like this might be that great America Republicans are so hell bent on preserving…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Medium (13) on 01 Nov 2018

Wiseman's working method doesn't allow much prying…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 31 Oct 2018

Without using interviews or making the documentary maker a part of the film, Wiseman immerses us into town life and what goes on day to day…

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By Daniel Nava (97) for Chicago Cinema Circuit (97) on 30 Oct 2018

a lengthy debate about getting a park bench approved offers one of the more head-clutchingly funny moments in Wiseman's oeuvre…

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By Andrew Parker (194) for The Gate (178) on 30 Oct 2018

These threads are picked up mostly through Wiseman's keen powers of observation, and his ability to construct such narratives without spoon…

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By Lindsay Zoladz (8) for The Ringer (285) on 29 Oct 2018

Monrovia, Indiana is a lesson in empathy without sentimentality, and in the mental freedom that comes when the world is not hemmed in by battle lines…

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By Tanner Tafelski (14) for Kinoscope (8) on 25 Oct 2018

with Monrovia, Indiana (2018), Wiseman hits a sweet spot, making a great work with consummate pacing and scope…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 25 Oct 2018

At two-and-a-half hours, Monrovia, Indiana often feels static and low-key to a fault…

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By Argun Ulgen (34) for PopMatters (2,617) on 25 Oct 2018

Holistically, Monrovia, Indiana, is a quiet impressionistic opus with minor political keys which are bigger than a critical analysis of the…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 25 Oct 2018

Wiseman himself is also the last person who’d call his films “objective,” because they’re not…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Nonfics (197) on 25 Oct 2018

Frederick Wiseman has made his dullest documentary. But a dull blade can still cut deep…

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By Adam Kempenaar (40) for Filmspotting (40) on 24 Oct 2018

Wiseman once again reveals his enduring inquisitiveness without being an inquisitor…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Oct 2018

In the realm of documentary films, as in the news media, polemicists are ascendant, but Frederick Wiseman isn’t one of them…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 24 Oct 2018

If there is any message to Monrovia, Indiana, it may be that we all share the same fate…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Oct 2018

Much of what Wiseman captures here is so resolutely ordinary that it threatens to cross the line into outright dull…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 22 Oct 2018

Few filmmakers can turn a mundane town council meeting about a library bench into a meditation on patriotism and civic responsibility the way…

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By Lorry Kikta (141) for Film Threat (5,156) on 21 Oct 2018

It's a painstaking, incredibly detailed look at one town in America that could be every town in America, or America itself…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 18 Oct 2018

Wiseman has filmed and under-edited what amounts to a public record of a sliver of a village captured at one moment in time, playing up the…

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By Joe Blessing (34) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Oct 2018

Monrovia, Indiana may not be Wiseman's best work, but it's still a meaningful and thoughtful elegy for a specific era of American rural life…

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By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

Wiseman said that he wanted to share his view of this way of life, and the film he has delivered is a deeply compassionate and wholesome portrait…

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