The Sweet East

Name: The Sweet East
Genre: Drama
Released: December 1, 2023
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Andy Milonakis, Ayo Edebiri, Cameron Andre, Earl Cave, Emmy Harrington

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| Release Date: December 1, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Andy Milonakis, Ayo Edebiri, Cameron Andre, Earl Cave, Emmy Harrington, Gibby Haynes, Jack Irv, Jacob Elordi, Jamie Granato, Jeremy O. Harris, Khalil Amonette, Michelle Ellyse, Rish Shah, Simon Rex, Talia Ryder

Summary: High school student Lillian runs away while on a school trip and, through a series of encounters, traverses the spectrum of contemporary radicalism and madness, from white supremacists to Islamic radicals, from neo-punks to woke avant-gardists. At every leg of her journey, she comes into contact with hermetic worlds, whose citizens rant andHigh school student Lillian runs away while on a school trip and, through a series of encounters, traverses the spectrum of contemporary radicalism and madness, from white supremacists to Islamic radicals, from neo-punks to woke avant-gardists. At every leg of her journey, she comes into contact with hermetic worlds, whose citizens rant and rave to each other, blissfully ignorant of their neighbors. … Expand

Director: Sean Price Williams

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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The Playlist Rafaela Sales Ross

May 23, 2023

Shot in a way reminiscent of classic ’70s cinema while commenting on the woes of the contemporary, Williams builds a timely film that still feels timeless, an expansive chronicling of a slice of America ripe for many a rewatch. Read full review

Catherine Bray

May 23, 2023

The film is intriguingly anthropological in its take on America as a subject, viewed less through the prism of what American might signify as a nation, than how America might feel as an experience — there’s a sense of disintegration and incipient violence seeping through everything, which occasionally explodes to entertaining effect, but there’s clearly deep affection there too. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Apr 17, 2024

There is a sense here not just of Vietnam-era experimental cinema but of contemporaneous postmodern novels by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and the recently late John Barth. Smart and dumb. Fascinating and frustrating. An absolute blast. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Dec 4, 2023

It’s a well-made, purposefully ugly treatise of America as a broken-down theme park. But its charm wanes whenever it’s just not as funny, smart, or edgy as it thinks. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

Mar 29, 2024

This defiantly blank canvas may strike you as a puzzling, even a dubious, heroine, but Ryder’s terrific. And at least she has the last laugh: no one can get their graffiti to stick. Read full review

Screen Rant Patrice Witherspoon

May 30, 2023

If nothing else, it's best to walk into Sean Price Williams’ feature debut, The Sweet East, as a satire decorated with light political and human commentary and wild excitement that never lets up. Read full review

Kyle Turner

Sep 27, 2023

Sean Price Williams’s solo feature directorial debut is pretty fuzzy on what it wants its national tour of brainless dogma to mean. Read full review

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