The American Meme

Name: The American Meme
Genre: Documentary
Released: December 7, 2018
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Amanda Cerny, Brittany Furlan, D.J. Khaled, Dane Cook, Emily Ratajkowski

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): December 7, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Amanda Cerny, Brittany Furlan, D.J. Khaled, Dane Cook, Emily Ratajkowski, Eric Blackmon, Hailey Baldwin, Josh Ostrovsky, Kirill Bichutsky, Lele Pons, Matthew Felker, Paris Hilton, Tommy Lee, Xander Estin

Summary: The American Meme follows the journeys of Paris Hilton, Josh Ostrovsky, Brittany Furlan and Kirill Bichutsky, as they hustle to create empires out of their online footprints.

Director: Bert Marcus

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Chris Gore

Dec 24, 2018

The American Meme works best when it reveals the subtle pain behind much of the manufactured fantasy. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Dec 5, 2018

The American Meme is a film I very much recommend, since it’s both highly entertaining and an essential snapshot of the voyeuristic parasitic American fishbowl. Read full review

Naomi Fry

Jan 4, 2019

What is fascinating, and valuable, about The American Meme is its ability to reveal the desperation, loneliness, and sheer Sisyphean tedium of ceaselessly chasing what will most likely end up being an ever-diminishing share of the online-attention economy. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Dec 5, 2018

The American Meme traces this democratized/Americanized form of “celebrity” back to its origins and profiles some of the web’s more notorious creations in a generally entertaining and somewhat illuminating account of recent history. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Dec 23, 2018

The American Meme can be fun, even informative, but there’s a bigger story here, and Marcus mostly fails to tell it. Read full review

Randall Colburn

Dec 10, 2018

It’s vital in the sense that there aren’t enough third-party chronicles of this undeniably potent force in the online world, but it’s sloppy in how safe it feels — it’s easy to imagine the stars agreeing to speak so long as certain topics were either breezed over or avoided entirely. Read full review

Kyle Turner

Dec 19, 2018

The American Meme is a polemic as shallow and artificial as it thinks its subjects are. Read full review

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