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Radiant City
Odeon Films

Radiant City reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 60 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.0 out of 10
based on 6 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Hong Cheng, Kyle Grant, Amanda Guenther, Daniel Jeffery, Mikeala Jeffrey, Bob Legare, Jane MacFarlane , Curt McKinistry, and Karen Planden

Something's happening on the edge of town. There's a desperate housewife in the parking lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn - and a loaded gun in the upstairs closet. Welcome to Radiant City, new film on 21st century suburbanites. (Odeon Films)


GENRE(S): Documentary  
WRITTEN BY: Jim Brown
Gary Burns
 
DIRECTED BY: Jim Brown
Gary Burns
 
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: May 30, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Canada 

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75
New York Post V.A. Musetto
As a one-time suburbanite now living happily in Manhattan, I can attest that Radiant City tells it like it is. The film ends with a surprise that you won't see coming and I won't spoil.
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75
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Jim Brown and Gary Burns hang a powerful antisuburban diatribe in the form of statistics, expert opinions and pictures worth a thousand words on the experiences of the Moss family.
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70
The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz
The cinematographer Patrick McLaughlin's eerie, sometimes monumental images italicize the experts' statements, making the suburbs seem like an asphalt-and-Sheetrock dreamscape where democracy goes to die.
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70
Variety Ken Eisner
In the end, helmers have some nifty tricks up their verite sleeves.
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70
Village Voice Aaron Hillis
Enlightening and disturbingly funny.
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33
The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
The faux-documentary aspect of Radiant City is a huge gamble that doesn't pay off. If anything, the movie's observations about the corrupting social influence of cluttered mall spaces get undercut by the fact that Burns and Brown feel the need to INVENT characters to prove their truth.
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