Kajillionaire

Name: Kajillionaire
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: September 25, 2020
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Adam Bartley, Betsy Baker, Blanca Araceli, Challen Cates, Da'Vine Joy Randolph

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Focus Features | Release Date: September 25, 2020 | R

Starring: Adam Bartley, Betsy Baker, Blanca Araceli, Challen Cates, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Debra Winger, Diana-Maria Riva, Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Ian Casselberry, Kim Estes, Madeleine Coghlan, Mark Ivanir, Patricia Belcher, Rachel Redleaf, Randy Ryan, Rebecca Lee Robertson, Richard Jenkins, Steve Park

Summary: Con-artists Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) have spent 26 years training their only daughter, Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. During a desperate, hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger (Gina Rodriguez) into joining their next scam, only to have their entire worldCon-artists Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) have spent 26 years training their only daughter, Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. During a desperate, hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger (Gina Rodriguez) into joining their next scam, only to have their entire world turned upside down.… Expand

Director: Miranda July

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 104 min

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Richard Brody

Sep 23, 2020

July’s aesthetic imagination is inseparable from her empathetic curiosity and emotional urgency; it tempers a howl of anguish at a world of pain into a kind of cinematic music that unfolds it in nuanced detail and extends a hand of consolation, even offers a note of hope. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Jan 27, 2020

July takes these weird, desperate characters and gives their lives a couple of cosmic twists that serve both to clarify her vision and to expand it. This might be her best film yet. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

Sep 23, 2020

Jenkins and a nearly unrecognizable Winger make the most of their small monsters, peeling back layers of callousness and calculation to hint at the messier motivations underneath. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jan 26, 2020

In the end, Kajillionaire is less about the con than it is the connection, and we’re all the richer as a result. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Sep 23, 2020

Kajillionaire is certainly not operating on a familiar wavelength, but it is also more than, say, Wes Anderson cosplay. In its quizzical, candy-coloured, sideways view of the world – one that normalizes apartments that regularly flood with pink sludge – the film is offering a challenge to its audience. Accept it, or move along. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Jan 26, 2020

It’s a film that requires you to indulge its patience-testing pace, monotonous dialogue delivery and frustrating anti-characterization for a very long time before you earn the right to unwrap the borderline transcendent gift of its absolutely beautiful ending. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Sep 22, 2020

At its best, Kajillionaire provides a chance for Rodriguez to play a breezy extrovert and for Wood to play a damaged introvert, and for their characters to alter and deepen through contact with each other. They’re both excellent, but they can’t make the movie any less slow, and July’s relentless whimsicality occasionally sounds some false notes. Read full review

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MommoMango

Apr 3, 2021

Miranda July is brilliant. This film is a slow burn with a huge emotional payout, about a disfunctional family unable to show their daughter love. When she ends up in a parenting course and watches a film of a newborn bonding with its mother, her world begins to unravel as she sees herMiranda July is brilliant. This film is a slow burn with a huge emotional payout, about a disfunctional family unable to show their daughter love. When she ends up in a parenting course and watches a film of a newborn bonding with its mother, her world begins to unravel as she sees her parents cold cruelty toward her. Part absorbing, visually beautiful in its own weird way, this film has an extraordinary emotional payoff as you root for the daughter to break free.… Expand

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katezoe

Jul 17, 2021

Another brilliant film by Miranda July about a family of grifters in L.A. Although, that is just the simple premise. The acting by Richard Jenkins is pitch perfect. Debra Winger is unrecognizable. And Evan Rachel Woods and GINA Rodriguez are wonderful. Film is a great surprise.

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Leonlightening

Nov 20, 2020

A stunning movie that masters the subtle and the overstated at the same time. I loved it. 9/10 all day long.

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geewah

Apr 1, 2022

A meloncholy movie about self discovery that at times gets bogged down with it's slow pacing. The highlight though is the performance of Richard Jenkins as the neurotic head of the family.

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alejandro970

Aug 13, 2023

This film is one of those that generate polarized reactions. It gives the impression that nothing is happening and it is not picking up speed even with a rocket, and as a comedy it is not what one would suppose. However, the performances do just enough so that the walk is not a waste.

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bertobellamy

Nov 14, 2020

'Kajillionaire' is not a bad movie, but some decisions make the plot feel very awkward, and not in a good way. As a self-discovery film at its core, it's very hard to get into these characters, especially with Evan Rachel Wood, whose strange voice and mannerisms kinda look like a joke. I'Kajillionaire' is not a bad movie, but some decisions make the plot feel very awkward, and not in a good way. As a self-discovery film at its core, it's very hard to get into these characters, especially with Evan Rachel Wood, whose strange voice and mannerisms kinda look like a joke. I really liked the general idea, but I just couldn't follow along with its vibe.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Mar 22, 2021

(Mauro Lanari)
While waiting for the Big One chosen as a symbol of annihilation due to death, is the ascetic approach of anticipated detachment from any bond preferable, or the antithetical hedonistic approach? Diogenes or Epicurus? Miranda July doesn't care to take the question seriously,(Mauro Lanari)
While waiting for the Big One chosen as a symbol of annihilation due to death, is the ascetic approach of anticipated detachment from any bond preferable, or the antithetical hedonistic approach? Diogenes or Epicurus? Miranda July doesn't care to take the question seriously, so she's even less interested in providing a shred of answer. She is content to continue her journey as an indie filmmaker, Sundance-addicted, with the usual predominance of the bizarre eccentric. So the philosophical problem suddenly fades, leaving just a 26-year-old lesbian (otherwise why Rachel Wood?) scammed and robbed by her parents albeit with still a flicker of moral rigor.… Expand

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