Asphalt City

Name: Asphalt City
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: March 29, 2024
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Alisa Mironova, Anthony Ricciardi, Kali Reis, Katherine Waterston, Michael Pitt

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Roadside Attractions | Release Date: March 29, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Alisa Mironova, Anthony Ricciardi, Kali Reis, Katherine Waterston, Michael Pitt, Mike Tyson, Onie Maceo Watlington, Raquel Nave, Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan

Summary: [Originally screened at Cannes as "Black Flies".] Ollie Cross (Tye Sheridan), a young paramedic in New York, teams up with Rutkovsky (Sean Penn), an experienced EMT. Discovering the chaos firsthand, he is tested with the ethical ambiguity that can be the difference between life and death.

Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 120 min

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Kaely Monahan

Mar 27, 2024

What Sauvaire shows in these films is the intense human emotions that infuse these dramatic action movies. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Mar 27, 2024

With cinematographer David Ungaro providing hand-held docudrama work in saturated colors, “Asphalt City” is bleak and heavy-handed, yet we get the feeling a lot of paramedics in major cities would say it’s not all that far from the harsh realities of the job. Read full review

The Playlist Rafaela Sales Ross

May 21, 2023

Black Flies offers plenty of nihilistic entertainment. But don’t be too tempted to look for any depth in a film far too comfortable in the formulaic confines. Read full review

Steve Pond

May 21, 2023

Impressive in its single-mindedness, this is nonetheless a movie that dares you to try and like it – and most likely, few will take Sauvaire up on that dare. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 21, 2023

Black Flies is too enraptured by the violence it finds in the margins of New York City to meaningfully interrogate the mental stress of healing it; too focused on the constant buzz of sirens and death to rescue anything more nuanced from those layers of white noise. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Mar 28, 2024

This jittery drama wants viewers to appreciate the unique burdens facing emergency medical workers. Its approach to achieving this goal, however, involves a profusion of overly literal allusions to the paramedics as arbiters of life and death. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Mar 26, 2024

Shove everything into the meat grinder of cynicism and, in the end, your insights come to feel purely incidental. Read full review

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