Mainstream
IFC Films | Release Date: May 7, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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6
Negative:
2
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50
RogerEbert.comIsaac FeldbergMay 7, 2021
Mainstream may be up-to-date on stylistic grounds, but its narrative could use refreshing. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungSep 20, 2020
It's a messy, childish scrawl of a film, but it is high on energy. Read full review
50
Screen DailyJonathan RomneySep 20, 2020
Not so much bleeding edge as screeching edge, Gia Coppola’s Mainstream is a frenetic piece of pop-art social satire that strives to be super-current but feels oddly traditional beneath its eye-searing, pixel-popping surface. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeMay 7, 2021
The problem with Mainstream is it isn’t plugged deep enough into the culture it’s satirizing to really even know what its target is, let alone how to hit it. Read full review
42
The PlaylistGuy LodgeSep 20, 2020
Mainstream feels far more like a callow freshman effort, frantically tricked out with visual gimmicks and affected whimsy, none of which freshen up its palpably millennial stance on that ever-renewing question of whether or not the kids are all right. Read full review
40
VarietyJessica KiangSep 20, 2020
A brittle, exasperated satire on social media celebrity, her sophomore film, like the tacky messiah it creates in Andrew Garfield’s YouTube sensation, soon becomes the very thing it sets out to expose: a glittery, jangly image machine that manufactures little of actual substance, except the conclusion that social media = bad. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeMay 5, 2021
The film has the knowing swagger of something on the cutting edge but none of the self-awareness to realize it’s late to the party. Read full review
16
The Film StageRory O'ConnorSep 20, 2020
Indeed, the strangest thing about Mainstream (and it is a strange, strange film) is just how out of touch it feels. Granted, if it were easy to make a viral video we would all be doing it; yet what Coppola and her team have come up with is just so lame and off the mark and nauseatingly self-satisfied. Read full review
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