White Building
Kimstim Films | Release Date: May 19, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJun 16, 2023
Demolition is a state of mind in White Building, Cambodian filmmaker Kavich Neang’s sad, beautiful feature debut, an urban elegy about what’s thick in the air when the home one has always known is not long for the world. Read full review
80
The New YorkerRichard BrodyMay 22, 2023
The movie seems lived-in; its virtually tactile details and its trenchantly analytical dialogue feel like intimate aspects of the filmmaker's audiovisual, emotional, and intellectual experience. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDerek Smith
The film’s depiction of life impacted by urban transformation conjures a palpable aura of entrapment and helplessness. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAustin ConsidineMay 18, 2023
The film’s loose plotting and secondary character development can leave a few too many hanging threads, but its sense of place is so palpable you can almost smell the smoky city markets, the sweat, the hormones. Read full review
67
The Film StageAlistair RyderMay 17, 2023
Neang doesn’t widen his focus beyond the characters; they’re at risk of displacement from the city they’ve always known, but this critique of gentrification largely remains implicit, visible only allegorically through their daily struggles. Read full review
60
Screen DailyNikki BaughanApr 20, 2022
While the film is contemplative, intimate and visually arresting, its deliberately slow pace lessens its dramatic impact. Read full review
60
VarietyJessica KiangApr 20, 2022
Even just the rooftop of this vast, scabbed Phnom Penh apartment complex seems to have a thousand stories to tell — it’s perhaps little wonder that Neang’s melancholic, perplexed, slightly ponderous feature debut gets a little lost navigating them. Read full review
60
The GuardianCath ClarkeApr 20, 2022
This is a gentle-going watch, understated – underpowered even – and sometimes a little drowsy. Still, it has real sensitivity and insight into the transition to adulthood, as gradually it dawns on Nang that his parents don’t have all the answers. Read full review
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