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- 2023
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 44 m
- 2023
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 44 m
Summary James and Vanessa are ostensibly the perfect married couple; beautiful, successful, and smart. Their lives spiral out of control when they decide to seek justice against a neighbor they saw commit a crime on the evening news.
Written By: Sarah Kelly Kaplan
- 2023
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 44 m
- 2023
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 44 m
A Lot of Nothing
55
9.5
Summary James and Vanessa are ostensibly the perfect married couple; beautiful, successful, and smart. Their lives spiral out of control when they decide to seek justice against a neighbor they saw commit a crime on the evening news.
Written By: Sarah Kelly Kaplan
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
55
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
55
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The filmmaker plays with our assumptions around justice and race. While A Lot of Nothing uses elements ripped from the headlines, in this context, what you expect to come from it will say more about you than it does the script. The revelation of the final act changes everything that has gone before. Hang onto the edge of your seat for a wickedly entertaining ride.
Even if the onyx-dark humor and sardonic formal control go MIA eventually, “A Lot of Nothing” is really quite something.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 86 User Ratings
9.5
95% Positive
82 Ratings
82 Ratings
3% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
1% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 86 User Ratings
9.5
95% Positive
82 Ratings
82 Ratings
3% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
1% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
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There’s an earnest, yearning passion here that makes the film feel vital even at its clumsiest.
Despite some third act wobbles, A Lot of Nothing marks a strong, stylish, and suspenseful debut from co-writer and first-time feature director Mo McRae.
The film struggles to maintain the verve of this opening sequence (which nails a specific anxiety of liberal middle-class Black people), subsequently becoming a series of set pieces — some more energetic than others — in search of a thesis.
In his feature debut, the director Mo McRae displays a nice way with actors and a gift for visual tension, but in aiming for absurdist humor, he lands on something more vexing. It’s the script — by McRae and Sarah Kelly Kaplan — that’s the problem.
A Lot of Nothing takes a fraction of a stance on how Black people are socially caricatured and systemically discriminated against. So when the film reaches its big reveal and the discussion of it, it spins any assumption of intention into obscurity.
A hard drama with comedic-level misunderstandings about the racial divides and general mistrust that regrettably continue to exist. A Lot Of Nothing starts the conversation, asks critical questions, but cannot seem to come up with a satisfying end note.
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Новинка. Такого я ещё не видела. Рекомендую к просмотру Mixed or Average. Фильм заслуживает внимания.
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Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
