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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Sight and Sound (827) on 29 Oct 2018

Tan's doc is wide awake to her lost movie's resonance, as film meta-history ellipsis, as personal coming-of-age saga, and as a time capsule…

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By Kevin Ritchie (37) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 25 Oct 2018

Shirkers is a movie about dashed dreams and the meaningfulness of closure, but it's the opposite of bitter or rueful…

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By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 25 Oct 2018

Tan's joy in cinema is apparent in Shirkers' sometimes collage-like construction…

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By Andrew Parker (194) for The Gate (178) on 25 Oct 2018

Shirkers is part personal essay, part collage, part mystery, part mea culpa, and wholly entertaining…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 25 Oct 2018

A movie that maintains its forward momentum all the while it's looking back…

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By Audra Schroeder (19) for The Daily Dot (155) on 25 Oct 2018

Sandi Tan's Shirkers... is a study in memory and performance, as well as the complexities of women's friendship and creativity…

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By Josh Slater-Williams (157) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 25 Oct 2018

A joyfully idiosyncratic memoir of a joyfully idiosyncratic-looking film and its maker…

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By Monica Castillo (380) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 25 Oct 2018

In her search for closure to this bizarre chapter in her life, Tan recreates Cardona’s steps to make sense of why he would steal the teens’…

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By Alan French (85) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 24 Oct 2018

The displacement she puts on the audience mirrors her own displacement in the story…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Oct 2018

A knotty detective yarn, a funny valentine to Singapore and one of the year’s most ardent expressions of movie love, it tells a story of…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 24 Oct 2018

Like a photograph slowly developing before our eyes, Shirkers (which was also the title of the original picture) is both mystery and manhunt,…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 24 Oct 2018

Shirkers is a joy, but it also feels haunted, as if Tan had the unique opportunity to unearth a perfectly preserved clone of her younger, more…

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By April Wolfe (199) for TheWrap (3,203) on 24 Oct 2018

Like another breakout independent film this year, “The Tale,” Tan’s documentary attempts to portray her own narrative with objectivity…

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By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Oct 2018

The original Shirkers might be a product of a bygone era of pop culture, but its new nonfiction form scans as a second attempt to reach those…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 23 Oct 2018

What Tan has given us is an incredible, sui generis tribute to the international lingua franca of D.I.Y. cinempowerment…

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By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Oct 2018

Sandi Tan's view of what the original Shirkers represented, and what her new film should be, proves surprisingly expansive…

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By Stephen Saito (325) for Moveable Fest (298) on 18 Oct 2018

Thanks to the nifty, handcrafted-feeling montages that portray her youthful interests and tender narration, the film is enormously engaging…

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By Gerald Peary (163) for Arts Fuse (166) on 26 Sep 2018

The first was, tragically, never completed…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 08 Sep 2018

As the story of the mysterious Cordona plays out, the persuasive personalities of the three women both then and now strike a chord…

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By Ryan Oliver (25) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Sep 2018

Shirkers is a film that should be experienced more than explained…

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