Mobile Homes
Dark Star Pictures | Release Date: November 16, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
L.A. WeeklySam WeisbergNov 16, 2018
In Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes, Imogen Poots gives a performance of such multifaceted distinction that it might be hard to believe you’re watching the same actress from frame to frame. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 14, 2018
Director de Fontenay has a great eye for detail — filling Mobile Homes with inside cock-fighting particulars and manufactured housing factory work, roadhouses and after hours “clubs” where the chicken fighting takes place. Read full review
60
Screen DailyAllan HunterNov 16, 2018
The feature debut of Vladimir De Fontenay is an accomplished piece with a committed central performance from Imogen Poots, but the emotional impact is lessened by an air of predictability and the sense that every bit of fresh hope is destined to end in disappointment. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayNov 15, 2018
While the story’s a little shaky, Poots is outstanding; and de Fontenay has a terrific eye for the details of a drifter’s life, shuffling from hovel to hovel, never able to scrape up enough cash to sleep comfortably. Read full review
58
The PlaylistBradley WarrenNov 16, 2018
It’s a very watchable — if occasionally frustrating— first effort, but one hopes that the director will carve out more original territory with his second film, regardless of where he settles. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comNick AllenNov 16, 2018
There’s a big meaning to all of this, and yet the movie can’t eloquently express it, even though the metaphor is in the title. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerNov 16, 2018
The result is a metaphor run amok, with a limp plot, implausible action and three barely sketched characters played drearily. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBilge EbiriNov 15, 2018
This is an atmospheric, well-acted film that leaves us mostly cold. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeNov 16, 2018
This is a dour and deeply unpleasant film that wears its gritty realism as a badge of honor, while failing to recognize the motivations that explain such behavior in reality, which makes him neither an attentive journalist nor a particularly good storyteller (at least not yet). Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonNov 16, 2018
This unflinching yet compassionate depiction of marginalized misfits boasts a few pleasingly poetic flourishes, but it suffers from some common first-time director flaws, notably a listless narrative, thinly developed characters and a relentlessly somber mood. Read full review
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