The Lost Arcade
26 Aries | Release Date: August 12, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 12, 2016
At its best, The Lost Arcade captures the sense of competition, community and commitment by these people, many of whom saw Chinatown Fair as not just an escape but a home. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChuck BowenAug 8, 2016
The film's images have a loose, rough, textured liveliness that honors the spirit of Chinatown Fair. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanAug 11, 2016
The Lost Arcade is an engaging minor movie, but it touches on something that’s being lost in the age of technology that’s much bigger than video-game arcades: the feeling that there’s a reason — driving and inescapable and romantic — to leave home. Read full review
70
The New York TimesKen JaworowskiAug 11, 2016
Part scrappy, part sweet and wholly enjoyable, The Lost Arcade is a love letter to a vanished piece of New York, and a little wish for the future. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckAug 11, 2016
For all the sloppiness of its approach, The Lost Arcade is an enjoyable and nostalgic portrait of a bygone era and a local institution that has now lost the pungent atmospheric flavor that made it so unique. Read full review
70
Village VoiceEric HynesAug 11, 2016
The film meets the open door, come-as-you-are community on its own level, freely following both new and recurring faces over its diffuse 79 minutes and avoiding the forced, interwoven three-character structure that far too many works of American nonfiction seem obliged to employ. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloAug 10, 2016
At bottom, this is the story of freaks and geeks everywhere: a quest for the like-minded, rooted in obsessive engagement with a tiny sliver of pop culture. Read full review
50
The PlaylistAndrew CrumpAug 11, 2016
The Lost Arcade suffers not because it lacks an egalitarian heart, but because Vincent makes his arguments through a myopic lens. Read full review
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