Maineland
Abramorama | Release Date: March 16, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 14, 2018
Maineland takes up a large and complicated set of topics — the global economy, the shifting relations between East and West, the commodification of American education — and addresses them with understated delicacy. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlMar 15, 2018
That relaxed joyfulness is balanced by the challenges of the states: weight gain, being stereotyped, the emphasis on fun with friends rather than preparation for all the life ahead. You can see, over the school year Wang documents, the kids’ certainties about what matters most eroding. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenJun 7, 2018
While it scratches an admittedly reflective surface, you keep hoping the nicely photographed Maineland would have dug a bit deeper. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 29, 2018
Maineland is informative in the most basic ways. But the big hole in Wang’s film is in failing to capture the disconnect, the true culture shock of children of neon bedecked skyscrapers, mansions and coddling parents packed off to the backwoods of Maine. And the second biggest hole is missing the frison that must have been experienced by both sides in this exchange. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireMar 16, 2018
A documentary that offers some fascinating if glancing insights into a rich and timely subject but ends up being more frustrating than enlightening. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweMar 14, 2018
Wang’s verite approach attempts to strike a tone somewhere between revealing and contemplative, but her principal subjects are too young and inexperienced with the world to have much of import to say. Read full review
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