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By Alistair Ryder (351) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 13 Aug 2018

We the Animals is an undeniably moving film, but one whose emotional power is curbed by its similarity to other notable US indies of recent years…

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By Brandon Judell (340) for CultureCatch (133) on 12 Aug 2018

Through the use of music, animation, handheld camera footage, and razor-sharp editing, Zagar creates a brilliant cinematic equivalent of Torres's…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Aug 2018

In We the Animals, director Jeremiah Zagar sustains a tone of wounded nostalgia, fashioning a formalism that appears to exist simultaneously…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 12 Aug 2018

Jonah and his Ma are at the center of this mess and every step of the way we hope they can escape the animalistic behavior on display…

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By George Fenwick (9) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 05 Aug 2018

Though beautifully rendered on 16mm film, the largely plotless narrative relies a little too heavily on dazzling visual tricks - but eventually…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 03 Aug 2018

This is “The Florida Project” set in Pennsylvania, a memoir both brilliantly specific and depressingly universal…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 04 Jul 2018

In his first narrative feature, documentary maker Jeremiah Zagar (In a Dream, Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart) captures the feel of…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Playlist (3,871) on 04 Jul 2018

This is an assured, confident feature-directing debut for Zagar who shows great promise in his ability to render a confident and brilliant…

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By Brent Mcknight (80) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 15 May 2018

Dreamy and impressionistic, interspersed with fantastic bursts of animation, We the Animals plays like a gauzy, mesmerizing, half-remembered…

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By Max Weiss (198) for Baltimore Magazine (197) on 02 May 2018

Jeremiah Zagar's dreamy coming of age film, based on Justin Torres' semi-autobiographical novel, casts a hypnotic spell…

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By Dwight Brown (181) for National Newspaper Publishers Association (180) on 29 Apr 2018

The film never recovers from the irritating tonal shifts, even with the good performances…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 25 Apr 2018

The story, such as it is, has the dreamy flow of childhood remembered, but though the honeyed tones of the magic hour are often used, there's…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Apr 2018

Zagar has a gift for capturing a character's essence in an image or two, via simple compositions occasionally augmented by spellbinding snatches…

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By Anthony Kaufman (83) for Screen International (2,241) on 07 Feb 2018

For all its deft style and sympathetic characters, there’s still something missing in We,The Animals…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 22 Jan 2018

While Zagar doesn’t force the material into many surprising places, it’s a fully realized tapestry, owing much to the complex, layered…

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