Secret Mall Apartment

Name: Secret Mall Apartment
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 21, 2025
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 82

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| Release Date: March 21, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Liam Lacey

Apr 17, 2025

Odd but meaningful, Secret Mall Apartment, is an entertaining documentary about how a group of eight young artists secretly maintained an apartment — from 2003 to 2007 — in a hidden nook in the Providence Place, Rhode Island, shopping center. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Mar 21, 2025

These are the intriguing ideas at work in Secret Mall Apartment, but the film works as a movie thanks to the sly way it’s been put together. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Apr 17, 2025

It’s consistently, thoughtfully engaging. And, yes, often very funny in its open-hearted embrace of the DIY spirit, legal or otherwise. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Apr 3, 2025

Secret Mall Apartment – a seriously fun film – commits in kind. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

May 8, 2025

Thanks to its thoughtful protagonists and filmmaker Jeremy Workman, what starts out as a quirky human interest story becomes a profoundly humane portrait of creativity and community. Read full review

Jim Vorel

Mar 24, 2025

It’s tough to watch Secret Mall Apartment and not fall under the spell of Townsend and his earnest collaborators, possessing as they do the idealism and righteous conviction of young people in a bygone era who are quite certain that they’re going to change the world. Read full review

Collider Luna Guthrie

Mar 20, 2025

There is a simplistic charm to the movie that captures the strange in-between times of the early 2000s. Read full review

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