Ham on Rye
Factory 25 | Release Date: October 23, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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91
The PlaylistJessica KiangJan 20, 2021
Ham on Rye is not obviously political, but it is also deeply political, pointing out, in lazy, absurdist, carelessly clever frames a​ deep-set​ American wrongness that was quietly murmuring away long before the current blowhard moment, and that will continue long after. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenOct 19, 2020
The film’s purposeful archness challenges the sentimentality that marks many a film and real-life ceremony. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawJan 7, 2021
The film never behaves as if it is anything other than a realist coming-of-age drama but there is something else going on. Read full review
80
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 22, 2020
Taormina purposefully dresses his cast and designs their environment in a way that throws them into a sort of temporal never-never land. He achieves a number of other startling effects in this impressive movie, which sheds its naturalism slowly as it embraces a surrealism that’s both disquieting and poignant. Read full review
75
IndieWireRyan LattanzioOct 28, 2020
While the narrative hardly goes into the fully unhinged direction it teases, it’s pleasantly askew and always marching to its own strange and, slightly off, beat. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrOct 21, 2020
Ham on Rye will frustrate literal-minded audiences, but it’s a work of gentle, genuine American surrealism — a lo-fi love song to those left behind by character and chance. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeOct 23, 2020
Quiet and carefully made but cryptic, it relies on the viewer to complete its metaphors. Read full review
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