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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Film Presence
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Film Presence
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen (Jacqueline Kim) and her daughter Jules (Samantha Kim) do all they can to hold on to their joy together, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

Directed By: Jennifer Phang

Written By: Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Film Presence
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Film Presence
  • 1 h 30 m

Advantageous

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen (Jacqueline Kim) and her daughter Jules (Samantha Kim) do all they can to hold on to their joy together, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

Directed By: Jennifer Phang

Written By: Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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44% Mixed
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11% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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11% Negative
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80
Jun 23, 2015
Challenging viewers this way — denying clean resolutions, chucking out the urgent drama of the first hour of movie — is bound to alienate some audiences. But from its arresting first scenes, Phang's film is as much about why? as it is what next?
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 25, 2015
The Bay Area filmmaker’s Sundance Prize-winning film achieves much on a relatively meager budget (it has an impressive futuristic visual design), and the last half hour is so irresistibly creepy that it’s sure to invoke discussion after the screening.
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.4
50% Positive
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33% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.4
50% Positive
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33% Mixed
4 Ratings
17% Negative
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67
Jun 25, 2015
As in a lot of good sci-fi, the movie is set in a particular world, but driven by the characters that inhabit it.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 25, 2015
This is dark stuff, but a striking humanity shines through.
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60
Jun 23, 2015
Advantageous presents an offbeat, intimate dystopian vision that is strongly intriguing for a while. But just when it should shift from a focus on ideas to emotional involvement, the pic instead grows slower and less engaging.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 23, 2015
It’s no surprise to learn this was developed from a short film; it has a short’s fragmented, tone-poem quality, but not the sustained coherence of a feature.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
38
Jun 24, 2015
The dialogue is so disaffected it's as if humans were replicants even before going through the aforementioned twin-making procedure.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
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Release Date Jun 26, 2015
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/Advantageous
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Awards

VC FilmFest - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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