Stinking Heaven
Factory 25 | Release Date: December 9, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
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Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
RogerEbert.comNick AllenDec 10, 2015
An incredibly refined emotional experience, the splattered emotions on its dirty canvas nonetheless the product of a specific, deeply felt directorial vision. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodyDec 11, 2015
[Silver's] densely textured images have many planes of action, which he parses with pans and zooms, revealing the volatile bonds of a group on the verge of combustion as well as the howling horrors of unremitting solitude. Read full review
80
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonDec 11, 2015
Never a banal depiction of dysfunctional group dynamics, Stinking Heaven, which was shaped, as in Silver's previous work, largely through improvisation, remains consistently absorbing. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineCarson LundDec 6, 2015
As in Nathan Silver's previous work, what could have been a rote retread of Pasolini's Teorema blossoms into a study of factional identity and power dynamics. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeDec 11, 2015
Whether scenes tilt toward very mordant farce or gut-stabbing trauma, there’s a compelling sense — crafted or otherwise — that the actors are driving the tone from scene to scene, with Silver and his incisive editor Stephen Gurewitz determining the emotional transitions between them. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldDec 8, 2015
The brisk clip and dashes of dark humor ward off actual despair, but the length poses challenges for some of the heavy lifting of character growth. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloDec 9, 2015
Like many of Joe Swanberg’s recent efforts, Stinking Heaven plays like a potentially strong idea for a movie that never quite takes shape, which is the problem with “writing” a movie while the camera rolls. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckDec 11, 2015
For every emotionally resonant scene, there's another that seems to drag on pointlessly, although the filmmaker once again displays a talent for delineating the emotional tensions that develop when disparate characters are thrown together. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenDec 21, 2015
While the early going might bring to mind the Dogme 95 school of stripped-down filmmaking...the result, with its collective of uniformly unsympathetic characters, ultimately overdoses on all the unscripted bad vibes. Read full review
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