Zeroville

Name: Zeroville
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: September 20, 2019
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 28
Cast: Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Dave Franco, Gus Van Sant, Horatio Sanz

2019

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myCinema | Release Date: September 20, 2019 | R

Starring: Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Dave Franco, Gus Van Sant, Horatio Sanz, Jacki Weaver, James Franco, Joey King, Marc-Edouard Leon, Megan Fox, Mike Starr, Nick Buda, Scott Reed, Seth Rogen, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Vince Jolivette, Will Ferrell

Summary: Vikar is a lost soul journeying through Hollywood 1969, a land of myths, beauty and monsters. The studio system is in decay, and a new generation of brash filmmakers are on the rise. With his shaved head marked by a tattoo from his favorite film, 1951’s A Place in the Sun, Vikar is a bizarre presence even amid the dreamers and players. HeVikar is a lost soul journeying through Hollywood 1969, a land of myths, beauty and monsters. The studio system is in decay, and a new generation of brash filmmakers are on the rise. With his shaved head marked by a tattoo from his favorite film, 1951’s A Place in the Sun, Vikar is a bizarre presence even amid the dreamers and players. He finds work first building sets, then as an apprentice editor obsessed with wielding the power of moving images. As his involvement in the creative process deepens, so does his fascination with a tragic screen goddess named Soledad. Together they discover just how hard it is to live in the blurred boundary between reality and illusion.… Expand

Director: James Franco

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Bill Goodykoontz

Sep 19, 2019

Clearly, Zeroville is not a film for everyone. But if you love movies and you’re willing to experiment, it’s an enjoyable trip. Read full review

Stephen Rodrick

Sep 20, 2019

Zeroville features a lot of fancy cuts, freeze frames and buried imagery because it is, well, about a film editor. It will either make you feel like you’re having an anxiety attack after overindulging at our country’s legalized cannabis buffet or you can roll with it. Either way, please hydrate. Read full review

Thom Ernst

Oct 1, 2019

For all its hallowed movie references, and despite the pride Zeroville takes in its weirdness, it just might be a movie too strange for its good. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 18, 2019

Whatever its virtues, the film comes together more adroitly than satisfyingly. Think of Zeroville as an artifact, worth looking at as a piece of pre-history that cannot — at present — shed its baggage, and frankly didn’t need that off-screen baggage to be a bust. Read full review

Scout Tafoya

Sep 26, 2019

The film isn’t — as crazy as this sounds — a total wash. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Sep 20, 2019

Franco has a truly radical streak in him, and considering how poorly the movie functions as a traditional crowdpleaser, he might as well have gone all out and pushed Zeroville to whatever event horizon the deranged project called for. His mistake wasn’t trying to adapt Erickson’s novel at all, but attempting to turn it into a tragic romance between Vikar and Soledad. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Sep 19, 2019

[A] lethargic, hallucinatory mish-mash with matching dialogue that has all the zing of a Wikipedia entry. Read full review

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Zhiserion

Nov 26, 2019

Weird movie that is meant for people who can see through its weirdness and into its true meaning. I'm not one of those people. Not bad, but far from good. Watch it only if you are into weird stuff.

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JLuis_001

Nov 15, 2020

The big issue with Franco and this film is not the lack of intent, but its astonishing superficiality and insignificance, in the face of its brutal attempt to take themselves more seriously, when everything that happens on screen is unable to achieve an effect of value. This is Franco's TheThe big issue with Franco and this film is not the lack of intent, but its astonishing superficiality and insignificance, in the face of its brutal attempt to take themselves more seriously, when everything that happens on screen is unable to achieve an effect of value. This is Franco's The Room. Certainly without the pitiful level of quality of Wiseau's film, but his love for the novel certainly made him believe that he had a better film in his head than the one he ended up making.… Expand

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Ralfbergs

Feb 29, 2020

Even tho it has cast with really great comedic actors and had good premise, when watching it it was so boring that in the end skipped through and still seemed like i haven't missed anything. Should've been much better, but ended up waste of time.

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