The Royal Road
Film Collaborative, The | Release Date: October 30, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
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Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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100
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonOct 27, 2015
As personal as it is political, Olson's meditative project offers a profound lesson on intimacy and history — and the ways in which both are distorted and remade by memory. Read full review
83
The PlaylistDrew TaylorOct 26, 2015
What keeps The Royal Road from feeling like its trapped in amber is the genuine heartbreak that Olson clearly feels, the rawness of her emotions and her dedicated willingness to share. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijOct 26, 2015
If this ambitious film never quite coheres into a single whole, something that an artificial division into several chapters only helps to underline, it does provide a lot to chew on along the way. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis HarveyOct 26, 2015
While this free-ranging agenda might easily have seemed overly random or pretentious, Olson’s confessional tenor lends it all a stream-of-consciousness intimacy. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineClayton DillardOct 26, 2015
The cumulative effect is altogether perplexing, as it's difficult to tell if Olson's trying to upend clichés or settle for them. Read full review
40
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 29, 2015
Ms. Olson’s images are often captivating, but too often undercut by the aforementioned aspiring-to-the-dialectical voice-over, which is awkwardly written, and delivered with a lack of affect that grows tedious over the course of an hour. Read full review
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