Secret Mall Apartment
| Release Date: March 21, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Original-CinLiam LaceyApr 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
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 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
88
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 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
88
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMar 21, 2025
This is a delightful, thought-provoking movie that’s about a lot of things at the same time. It’ll make you see the world with fresh eyes, and probably wonder why there isn’t more art in it. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesApr 3, 2025
Secret Mall Apartment – a seriously fun film – commits in kind. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 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
74
Paste MagazineJim VorelMar 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
70
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonMar 28, 2025
Secret Mall Apartment makes a compelling case that the project reverberates through the lives of the artists, and maybe even the city, to this day. Art doesn’t have to be in a museum to be valuable; it doesn’t have to be own-able, repeatable or even make sense to everyone. If it changes a few lives, then it’s changed the world. Read full review
70
ColliderLuna GuthrieMar 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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