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By Yolanda Machado (67) for TheWrap (3,203) on 29 Jun 2021

Zola feels utterly contemporary but will no doubt be examined for decades to come, as a marker of both this particularly crazy time in history…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 29 Jun 2021

The movie exemplifies the power of the cinema—even the popular and commercial and invigoratingly swingy cinema—to reflect the inner life…

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By Jacob Oller (247) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 29 Jun 2021

It’s a movie by a Black woman about a Black woman (that barely, blessedly avoided being directed by James Franco) that doesn’t just capture…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 29 Jun 2021

Oftentimes, the original book is better than its movie version…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Jun 2021

In all ways, it’s unexpected — in its subject, in its treatment of its subject, and in its whole look and feel…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 29 Jun 2021

The result is a raw and sometimes chilling and often darkly funny adventure filled with just enough nods to social media, e.g., we sometimes…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 29 Jun 2021

A cautionary tale for the fleet-fingered social media generation, Zola explodes off the screen in a burst of emoji confetti…

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By Karen Han (178) for Slate (2,081) on 28 Jun 2021

Like the thread it’s based on, it’s easy to rush through, even if does visit some darker places…

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By Shannon Miller (16) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jun 2021

Zola is first and foremost a zany, catastrophic road-trip dramedy, one that balances the whimsy of social media with the harrowing reality…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 25 Jun 2021

Zola’s comic absurdities are entwined with its horrors in a way that almost shouldn’t work…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 22 Jun 2021

Things go a little haywire at the end of the film when the story falls apart a bit — endings are tough, on Twitter and in theaters…

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By Adi Robertson (27) for The Verge (432) on 25 Feb 2020

While the film doesn’t disguise its origin as a Twitter thread, it generally doesn’t treat it as a gimmick, either — because in 2020,…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 30 Jan 2020

Zola‘s not without its faults…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Jan 2020

The performances are a hoot . . . . But the film has perspective problems that extend beyond the slightly queasy, half-comic depiction of sex work…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 25 Jan 2020

Though premised on the slight pretenses of Twitter, the world of Bravo’s film is no fictionalized, seedily appealing underbelly…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 Jan 2020

Empowering, saddening, amusing and aggravating in roughly equal measure, with a very small side order of social critique, Bravo’s film marks…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 25 Jan 2020

Director Janicza Bravo’s zany road trip comedy about a pair of strippers on a rambunctious 48-hour Florida adventure embodies its ludicrous…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Jan 2020

If Paige and Keogh weren’t both such indelible, fiercely charismatic characters, the whole thing could easily fall apart…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Jan 2020

More or less playing straight man to Keough's comically unflappable liability, the incandescent Paige conveys the disappointment, even disdain,…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 25 Jan 2020

It’s crass, it’s cruel, it’s wild, it’s often hilariously funny…

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