Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.
North by Current has generally received positive reviews.
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By Nicolas Rapold (488) for The New York Times (9,847) on 18 Nov 2021
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North by Current was released in 2021 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 3 reviews, giving North by Current (2021) an average rating of 62%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 60%. Professional critics were more impressed with North by Current than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 62%, North by Current is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2021, which stands at 59%.
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