This works best when you get to the places where it feels like you're inside a lava lamp--any time the movie starts doing rear projection, you know you're about to get some of the sickest visuals ever. The movie isn't doing much for me otherwise, though. I mean, obviously Jane Fonda is hot, which is kind of the whole substance of the film outside of the visuals, but I dunno, that's not quite enough to hold my attention, sorry. I…
Incredible you-are-there filmmaking, though I'll it to being far more ignorant of the historical context than I feel like is probably necessary for this to have its full impact. I definitely had Wikipedia open a lot on my laptop while I was watching and as a result felt a little distanced from what was actually happening. Even so, it's kinda sad that the group featured here (the PFLOAG) was splintered and eventually crushed by a counterinsurgency soon after the release…
Can't believe I wasted my last movie-watching opportunity of 2022 on this garbage. I haven't watched a ton of Andrew Callaghan's online work, but I've seen enough to know that he has a preternatural, almost Nathan-Fielder-esque ability for using his flat affect to draw incredible comments from the people he interviews, and that's on display here. There are a dozen fascinating documentaries to be made from the raw material captured here (the influencer street fight at the beginning, the heartbreaking…
American Factory has a lot of really good raw material about the fresh evils of multi-national corporations and the ways in which labor gets exploited by global capitalism. Its central fight for unionization at the Fuyao factory in Dayton, Ohio, is rousing and vital. All of that is why I've given American Factory anything close to a positive rating. But the rest... woof. The fact that this movie frames the whole conflict of the situation as some sort of American…
