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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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By Steve Erickson (207) for Gay City News (145) on 11 Oct 2018

Wiseman, now 88, is one of America's greatest living directors, but Monrovia, Indiana isn't one of his major films…

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By Christopher Lloyd (287) for The Film Yap (559) on 10 Oct 2018

Frederick Wiseman's portrait of the quintessential small Indiana town is documentary filmmaking in its purest form: observation without intrusion…

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By Tomas Trussow (247) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 02 Oct 2018

Wiseman knows that you don't have to take sides in order to make relevant cinema…

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By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 17 Sep 2018

Wiseman showcases Monrovia as having all the trappings and routines of a small American town, but, in a subtly disturbing evocation, is hollow…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 10 Sep 2018

In its austere way, this is classic Wiseman, a film that takes us into the heart of a community and reveals its inner workings, comforts, fractures…

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By Deborah Young (235) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Sep 2018

The film has its resonant moments, notably a wedding and a funeral…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Sep 2018

Its methodical gathering of material never quite brings us to a more stirring understanding of the lives under its lens…

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By Lorenzo Esposito (2) for Cinema Scope (405) on 10 Sep 2018

Wiseman, who shoves everywhere and observes everything with his usual mix of humour and astute political criticism, eventually finds small…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2018

As always with Frederick Wiseman, it’s the quotidian gestures that haunt one in Monrovia, Indiana…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 05 Sep 2018

More impressionistic than the searing intellectualism of his last work, Monrovia, Indiana at once demonstrates Wiseman’s formidable cinematic…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 04 Sep 2018

Wiseman is well known for his objectivity but another of his most enduring traits has been a dedication to showing audiences the hard, under-appreciated…

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